Final Project
Week 15: 4/15-4/20

Workshop #3: Designing an Engagement

Throughout the semester, you have been creating components for your final Digital Portfolio Project. You will create one new element before the final to demonstrate your mastery of not just completing digital engagements, but of designing them. In this workshop, you will start on that work.

In order to create an effective engagement, you need to consider these factors:

1. What objective are you trying to accomplish? For education students, this may be a formal Learning Objective for a specific population of students; for theatre and English students, this may be a specific engagement objective for a specific audience. Describe your objective(s) here:
2. What information inputs are needed to accomplish your objectives? (For example, the information inputs throughout the semester have been primary readings from Shakespeare's canon and various secondary context readings). Be specific, and indicate whether you will need to locate any of your sources--if so, how will you identify/obtain them?
3. What tools are available to you for engaging your audience. For this section, you may wish to look back at all the various tools we've used during the semester as well as thinking about any additional/new ones.
4. Bring it all together: brainstorm how a specific tool or tools could be applied to the information inputs to achieve an effective engagement for your audience.
5. Assessment: explain how you will know whether you've been successful in achieving your purpose.

Tools

Below is a list of tools that you might find helpful.

• Shakespeare Concordance from OpenSource Shakespeare
• Shakespeare in Full: Treasures in Quarto from the British Library (including a searchable database that allows comparison between passages in different versions of a text)
• Digital Facsimile of the First Folio (1623) from the Folger Shakespeare Library
• Silva Rhetoricae: Digital Rhetoric
• Glossary of Literary Terms compilied by Dr. Kip Wheeler
• Early Modern Theatres: A searchable database of English Reniassance drama. Searchable by venue, primary text, and other criteria.
• The Holinshed Project: Holinshed's Chronicles was a major source for historical information--both stories from antiquity translated from classical sources, and stories of English history. The Holinshed Project is a digital, searchable version of this source that also allows comparison between the 1577 and 1587 editions.

Upcoming Assignments

Digital Portfolio Review

Final Project

Resources

Historical Information about 16th century Monarchs

• Henry VIII (r. 1509-1547)
• Edward VI (r. 1547-1553)
• Lady Jane Grey (r. 10-19 July 1553)
• Mary I (r. 1553-1558)
• Elizabeth I (r. 1558-1603)
• The Rainbow Portrait of Elizabeth I by Isaac Oliver (c. 1660) - This image shows Elizabeth dressed in a cloak embroidered with eyes and ears, which symbolized clearly to her subjects that the Queen saw and heard all.
• For a critical reading of this image, see Erler, Mary C. "Sir John Davies and the Rainbow Portrait of Queen Elizabeth." Modern Philology, Vol. 84, No. 4 (May, 1987), pp. 359-371.
• James I (r. 1603-25)

Cultural Context

Web Resources

• Hamlet Page
• Oxford English Dictionary (OED) [see Canvas for login information]
• Outdoor Theatre Locations
• Outdoor Theatre Images
• Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, D.C.
• MIT Shakespeare Homepage
• Shakespeare's Globe, London
• Shakespeare Illustrated: Images of portraits and art inspired by Shakespeare's works.
• The Shakespeare Mystery: by PBS Online and WGBH/Frontline
• Shakespeare Quote Generator: just for fun
• Richard III in Memes!
• Great Chain of Being

Shakespeare in the News

• Did Shakespeare Smoke Marijuana? (probably not) from the Atlantic
• Richard III uncovered from the BBC
• Shakespeare Portrait from the New York Times
• Caredenio, Shakespeare's "lost play" from the Guardian