New MOOC brings Shakespeare into the digital age

https://youtube.com/watch?v=LBF_o-J1pN8%3Fsi%3DB7IRQo_Sz_L7oyAN

Shakespeare in Community is a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) that introduces a broad audience of learners to Shakespeare. The MOOC’s instructors are Shakespeare experts from the University of Wisconsin-Madison: Jesse Stommel, Sarah Marty, and Catherine DeRose. They’ll be joined by actors from Wisconsin theater groups like American Players Theatre, the Young Shakespeare Players, and Children’s Theater of Madison, along with R L Widmann, a reader at the Folger Shakespeare Library.

I was a contributor to this MOOC, affiliated with the Young Shakespeare Players. You can see me in this video (1:20) dressed as Caliban from The Tempest, commenting on Shakespeare’s ability to communicate staging with minimal stage directions.

Read the announcement and watch the videos