From the Floger Shakespeare Library - looked through YouTube and found some wacky Hamlet humor
Re-working of soliloquy
Another twist on a tried use of twitter. However it is hard to pick the short quote that epitomises the authors.
There are some great ideas for educating young people about Shakespeare. The different ideas would be easy to adapt to any classroom situation and allow students to explore and develop a deeper understanding of the plays, characterizations and structures.
"Here's what the first nine lines of the "To be or not to be" passage would've looked like had Shakespeare crammed them into the 140 characters of Twitter. Love the "2 die, 2 zzz" part. "
"To paraphrase Shakespeare, that is the question. Would he have twittered? Would #WillonAvon have sent off sparks all day? What would this have done to his work?"
The site integrates the full text of the plays and poems with the entire Glossary database, allowing you to search for any word or phrase in Shakespeare's works, and in particular to find all instances of all words that can pose a difficulty to the modern reader.
From the ABC splash website. "For the first time, schools across Australia can now access contemporary Australian performances of Shakespearean works in a digital form. In partnership with Australia's national Shakespeare theatre company, Bell Shakespeare, we have released a new video series Shakespeare Unbound. "