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The Global Shakespeares Video & Performance Archive is a collaborative project providing online access to performances of Shakespeare from many parts of the world as well as essays and metadata provided by scholars and educators in the field. The idea that Shakespeare is a global author has taken many forms since the building of the Globe playhouse. Our work honors the fact and demonstrates the diversity of the world-wide reception and production of Shakespeare’s plays in ways that we hope will nourish the remarkable array of new forms of cultural exchange that the digital age has made possible. Global Shakespeares is a participatory multi-centric networked model that offers wide access to international performances that are changing how we understand Shakespeare’s plays and the world.

Can you name all the different words in Hamlet's 'To Be Or Not To Be' Soliloquy?

Sporcle games provide mentally stimulating diversions.  Check the site for the many games featuring Shakespeare's plays and test your Shakespearean knowledge!

myShakespeare has been created to provide a 21st century lens into the world of Shakespeare online.  It invites people from around the world to share their thoughts and experiences of Shakespeare and his work and asks the question ‘How do we interpret Shakespeare today?’.  myShakespeare also includes a gallery, blog and other interesting features including the data visuilisation tool, Banquo.  It shows global, Shakespeare-related social media by the hour, taken from Twitter, Flickr and eBay.  You can use Banquo to find and share information specific to a date or to a Shakespearean play.

The myShakespeare project has been produced by the Royal Shakespeare Company as part of the World Shakespeare Festival.  It runs from 17^th April to November 2012 and is a microsite linked the World Shakespeare Festival website.

Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University, New Haven, CT

Remembering Shakespeare tells the story of how a playwright and poet in late sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century England came to be remembered as the world's most venerated author. Curated by David Scott Kastan, George M. Bodman Professor of English at Yale, and Kathryn James, Beinecke Library Curator, the exhibition brings together works from the holdings of Yale University's Elizabethan Club, Irving S. Gilmore Music Library, Lewis Walpole Library, Yale Center for British Art, and Beinecke Library, in an unprecedented display of one of North America's finest collections on Shakespeare. Drawing on these extraordinary resources, Remembering Shakespeare offers a unique visual history of how the "Booke" of Shakespeare was made and read, written and remembered, from his lifetime through the present.

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