On May 4, 2023 the Folger’s virtual book club continues with a discussion of Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin. To prepare for the discussion, we have pulled together a list of Folger resources related to Shakespeare, gaming, and grief.
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
LEARN more about Shakespeare and gaming
- The game’s the thing (by presenter Dr. Erin Sullivan)
- Gaming and grieving with Shakespeare: Gabrielle Zevin’s new novel puts the ghostliness in gameplay
- Fortune’s Fools: early tarot cards
- Rough Magic: Performing Shakespeare Through Gaming Technology
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
DISCOVER Shakespeare’s own sources of inspiration
- Shakespeare’s muses: The magic in his method
- Jonathan Bate on the Classics and Shakespeare
- Shakespeare and Folktales
We would like to thank the following organization for its generous support of this program
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