{"id":1153,"date":"2008-04-11T19:57:39","date_gmt":"2008-04-11T09:57:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/?p=1153"},"modified":"2008-04-11T19:57:39","modified_gmt":"2008-04-11T09:57:39","slug":"virtual-shakespeare-consortium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/?p=1153","title":{"rendered":"Virtual Shakespeare Consortium"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/ning.vshakespeare.com\/\"><strong>Virtual Shakespeare Consortium<\/strong><\/a> is a consortium of individuals and organizations dedicated to bringing Shakespeare and his culture to the Internet and beyond.<\/p>\n<p><embed src=\"http:\/\/static.ning.com\/vshakespeare\/widgets\/index\/swf\/badge.swf?v=3.1%3A4338\" quality=\"high\" scale=\"noscale\" salign=\"lt\" wmode=\"transparent\" bgcolor=\"#ffffff\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" pluginspage=\"http:\/\/www.macromedia.com\/go\/getflashplayer\" width=\"206\" height=\"64\" allowScriptAccess=\"always\" flashvars=\"networkUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fning.vshakespeare.com%2F&amp;panel=user&amp;username=39jcmx40hai00&amp;avatarUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.ning.com%2Ffiles%2FQxr8PHG-Wm2oDKM90YbSjUfVJkPErRN6wQCjCp3pgREI58w790%2AMAdQZFUO9OCkNUe17tEeHWPar-l07fA1RR3Qnnfr9AkV2%2Fjerry.jpg%3Fwidth%3D48%26height%3D48%26crop%3D1%253A1&amp;configXmlUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fstatic.ning.com%2Fvshakespeare%2Finstances%2Fmain%2Fembeddable%2Fbadge-config.xml%3Ft%3D1207888403\" \/> <br \/><small><a href=\"http:\/\/ning.vshakespeare.com\/xn\/detail\/u_39jcmx40hai00\">View my page on <em>vShakespeare<\/em><\/a><\/small><\/p>\n<p>Partly it&#8217;s about bringing together people from all over the world &#8211; virtually &#8211; to perform his plays in virtual worlds, like SecondLife.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/poetry.eserver.org\/sonnets\/\"><strong>Shakespeare&#8217;s sonnets<\/strong><\/a> are often forgotten in such ventures, but I think the richness of their imagery and of their conceits would lend themselves to creative treatment in SL, along with sonnet readings in-world.<\/p>\n<p>This venture will celebrate the polyglot nature of Shakespeare&#8217;s language &#8211; he emerged after all, at a pivotal point in the development of the English language, benefiting from the three major language groups that made up English, in a context in which new words were being coined daily and entered the language with the kind of speed not seen again until the birth of the internet. <\/p>\n<p>I look forward to see how this develops<\/p>\n<p>Cheers<br \/>\nJerry<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Virtual Shakespeare Consortium is a consortium of individuals and organizations dedicated to bringing Shakespeare and his culture to the Internet and beyond. View my page on vShakespeare Partly it&#8217;s about bringing together people from all over the world &#8211; virtually &#8211; to perform his plays in virtual worlds, like SecondLife. Shakespeare&#8217;s sonnets are often [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,5,8,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal","category-new-media","category-technology","category-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1153"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1153\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}