Why a 17th-Century Text Is the Perfect Starting Point for Reinventing the Book - Rebecca J. Rosen. Shakespeare's The Tempest is meant to be read out loud, discussed, and lives in the public domain. Wikimedia Commons/Luminary Digital Media LLC Good morning, class. I'd like you all to open your books to Act I, Scene 2, Line 398. Pages rustle as everyone flips through their books in search of that spot. "Usually there's a whole lot of shuffling," says Bryn Mawr professor Katharine Rowe. But not if the class is using an app she and Notre Dame professor Elliott Visconsi built.
In their app of Shakespeare's Tempest students can just enter "1.2.398" and be transported there immediately. That tool "gets my students on the line, at the same time, almost instantly. And this is just a simple search. "It's premised on the idea that you learn best when you create," Visconsi told me. Last year, Rowe and Visconsi founded a startup, Luminary Digital Media, for building the app. "I didn't begin my life as an academic imagining I would be an entrepreneur," Rowe mused. BBC Shakespeare Animated Tales - The Tempest - Part 1. BBC Shakespeare Animated Tales - The Tempest - Part 2. BBC Shakespeare Animated Tales - The Tempest - Part 3.
Tavisthill 60 Second Shakespeare - Watch The Tempest - The Battle Begins. 6-Did%20You%20Know.