On May 1, 2025 the Folger’s virtual book club continues with a discussion of The Death I Gave Him by Em X. Liu. To prepare for the discussion, we have pulled together a list of resources related to Hamlet, science fiction, and technology.
LEARN more about Hamlet
EXPLORE different ways digital technologies are applied to Shakespeare
- Continuing the celebration: Preserving birthday-related digital ephemera
- Digital humanities and Macbeth’s “creepiest” word
- Hamlet 360: Virtual Reality Shakespeare
- The Royal Shakespeare Company’s Digital Tempest
REFLECT on early modern approaches to death and grieving
- Dancing Skeletons and Human Hair: Remembrance, Memento Mori, and Material Culture
- Three chords and the truth
- The art of dying
LISTEN to related podcasts
- Episode 85: Shakespeare in Science Fiction
- Episode 204: Artificial Intelligence Goes to English Class, with Jennifer Black, John Ladd, and Laura Turchi
We would like to thank the following organization for its generous support of this program
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