About the Project
Who we are
Open Shakespeare is an Open Knowledge Foundation project and has been created with the help of following people:
- Rufus Pollock
- Iain Emsley
- Jonathan Gray
- Colette Sensier
- James Harriman-Smith
- Jack Belloli
- Emma Mustich
- Nika Engberg
- Adam Green
- Arabella Milbank
- Lottie Fenby
- Rachel Thorpe
- Hazel Wilkinson
- YOU
Our Aims
Open Shakespeare is only the beginning; it will serve as a forerunner to Open Literature. On the website, we provide the following and more in legally ‘open’ form:
- Multiple editions of Shakespeare’s plays.
- Short Introductions, and critical essay on Shakespeare’s works.
- Tools for annotating, comparing, searching, and analysing texts – whose code will be open, and encourage reusability in line with the Four Principles of Open Knowledge Development.
Our Rationale
We note that:
- Shakespeare is everywhere on the internet, but much of what is available is under copyright.
- Shakespeare is thus an ideal candidate for an open project.
- Such a project will be both illustrative, and innovative: always welcoming new ideas and new contributions towards its growth.
Our Licences
All the material produced by the Open Shakespeare Project including all the content on this site is available under open licenses. Specifically:
- All code is licensed under the MIT License.
- All content and data is available under a CC Attribution License.
Hi,
we have started up a little project which should be of interest to you… please have a look and get in touch
good luck with today’s sprint – sorry, haven’t time to help just now!
Tom
Might help if i put the website here, where people can see it!
http://www.delightedbeauty.org
My web site is a very different way of helping students learn to read Shakespeare.
By going through the process presented on the site, students rewrite and rearrange a small portion of original Shakespeare. The site presents changes a sonnet as an example, but I have similar presentations for most of the plays typically taught in high school. Supplemental worksheets are also available.
I also can provide a student program designed to walk students through the same steps using any piece of Shakespearean writing.
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