DHSHX Main Menu Introduction: What's Digital Shakespeare? An explanation of why this book exists. Learning Goals & This Book The learning goals that this book will address Where to Start in this Book A List of Primary Paths Available in the Book "DH" | Digital Methods for Literary Study An opening Page containing paths for learning about digital methods & the study of Literature/Shakespeare Shakespeare: The Basics Shakespeare: The Digital Path for how digital technology enhances the study of Shakespeare's works Units on Specific Works Home Page for Paths with Specific Plays & Poems "DH" Assignments Assignments that make use of digital texts, tools, or both

Richard III: "Looking for Richard," Redux

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(This is very much a work in progress--just getting some ideas down here so you can see where this is going.)

--Open with many "faces" of RIII: not only that which came to view recently, but as materially present on stage and screen throughout time (links to images here, with framing text about the range and texts upon which it draws)

--Chief among these Shakespeare's rendering, with famous passages/links to videos here (A horse, a horse! and his opening speech, perhaps in multiple versions: some recent, others less so, depending on availability/permissions)

--Yet as brought forward through Richard's ongoing memorial in the English East Midlands town of Leicester (site of...), the images we know of Richard were themselves refracted through a particular political lens--here, one concerned to legitimize and glorify the Lancastrian line of Henry Tudor (Henry VII) and his successors. (links to Leicester resources raising questions about R3's complexity)

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Part III: Why We Love to Hate Richard, or What's in a Rhetorical Strategy?

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