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Shakespeare London Theaters Project

1/20/2014

I've been studying overseas! I'm taking a class from the University of Birmingham and we're working through Hamlet. Yesterday they introduced me to the Shakespeare London Theaters Project, which has produced a series of videos exploring the several theaters that existed during Shakespeare's time. Along with the videos, they've produced several items for visitors including a map, a guide of walking tours and an app. This is definitely worth checking out! I've already ordered the guide. Here's the link: http://shalt.dmu.ac.uk/
Also, I'd highly recommend historians check out the MOOCS at Futurelearn.com. These are free global educational courses and I'm finding them to be remarkably well done.

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FREE FOR HALLOWEEN: Shakespeare's Witch on Kindle

10/29/2013

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Shakespeare's Witch, the complete story.

Thanks to my dear friends at UtahRWA who taught me how to offer an occasional free book! At least I made it in time for Halloween! All kindle users: Click on the link Shakespeare's Witch on Halloween to download the complete book at no cost!

For my friends who ordered early and paid full price - "The Queen's Puppets" is coming along and I promise you will also get my first kindle copy free next year.

For friends who purchased the hard copy of Shakespeare's Witch - get one for your kindle as well!

Nook owners - I can't launch Shakespeare's Witch on Barnes and Nobel for another month - but it's coming!!!
It'll be a great night to read a witch story!

BTW, for my writer friends out there, I learned at conference that the more I include a search phrase in my material, the better chance of it coming up at the top of the search engine choices.

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Delphi Classics - Complete Works of William Shakespeare

6/14/2013

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Yes, it's true. I now have five different collections of Shakespeare's work along with individual scripts of each of his plays. But I use them all and each one offers different supplemental information. My Delphi Classics version has drawn me back over and over as I research the Elizabethan period. I have it as a kindle edition, which allows me to verify authenticity of words I may use in my writing. I put in a search and can discover how many times that word is used in Shakespeare's work along with example phrases. I love it!

That said, this particular collection includes some great extras. For example, I can now access Sheakspeare's "Lost Plays" like Love's Labour's Won, Cardenio, and Double Falsehood." A "Sources" section gives me an idea of where Sheakespeare might have found inspiration for each play. Another section provides me with "The Apocryphal Plays" along with explanations for their connections to Shakespeare. Critical essays include notes from Samuel Johnson, Leo Tolstoy, Victor Hugo, and George Bernard Shaw among others. Next comes several biographies by Nicholas Rowe (Shakespeare's first "editor" who helped develop raw flios into published words in the early 17th century), Henry Norman Hudson (an American Critic from the mid 1800's), Sir Sidney Lee (an English biographer and Elizabethan scholar who wrote "Life of William Shakespeare" in 1898), Arthur Acheson ("Shakespeare's Lost Years in London), and Charles Dudley Warner ("The People for Whom Shakespeare Wrote"). The book ends with Shakespeare's Last Will and Testament and a Glossary of Elizabethan Language.

You can see why I value this book and would recommend it to anyone interested in researching Shakespeare. It's a collection of material that draws me back to discover bits of information not found in traditional biographies, along with historical insights from various period perspectives. The kindle version is a bargain at $2.99. It's reasonably formatted for electronic searches and the table of contents works very well. This book was published in 2011.

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Jodee Steffensen
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J.D. Steffensen

Jodee (J.D.) Steffensen

Historical and Romance Writer, Amateur Herbalist, and Seeker of adventure, new knowledge and all things good!

Hobbies? I've adored cats all my life. I came to love Shakespeare when I was introduced to him in college. I developed an interest in herbs when a dear friend was diagnosed with cancer. I learned about the complex politics of Shakespeare's world when another friend gave me a book, "Shadow Play," by Clare Asquith.

Shakespeare London Theaters Project

FREE FOR HALLOWEEN: Shakespeare's Witch on Kindle

Delphi Classics - Complete Works of William Shakespeare

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