Shakespeare for All

The three Macbeth  videos are now all up and running on the Youtube channel. We also spent a big chunk of Sunday recording the three equivalent ones for Romeo and Juliet on plot, characterisation and context. Next up will be A Midsummer Night's Dream . The idea is to try to take advantage of the summer break to write and record as many of these as possible, bearing in mind that we are intending to produce quite a few. They will then be released once per week on a Sunday evening. Now that we are all used to the idea, we have a much better sense of what to do, plus it's actually becoming quite good fun. Academics don't get proper holidays any more anyway - not if we want to be productive in our actual subject...!

Rather a cryptic title, I know, but it's just to say that the videos on characterisation and plot for Macbeth  are both up on my Youtube Channel, and will be joined tomorrow evening by a third, on context. I'm now working on the usual trilogy of videos for the next play, which will be Romeo and Juliet ; chracterisation is already written for that one, and I'm part of the way through the one on plot. Once I've finished that one we will probably record the videos. It would be good to get to a regular schedule of a video being released every Sunday evening. The play after that will be A Midsummer Night's Dream. It was on my list of must-do plays anyway, but I have also received a couple of requests for this one.

Not going anywhere, of course, but at least I'm now on summer break. Also known as writing and filming time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPETehMiApg&feature=youtu.be&fbclid=IwAR3PWbguBchuBYZoXhZWiUh2z9f-SdptISoiDJy9RbdJ3_puXXoHY9plv8k This is the link to Shakespeare for All , a new Youtube channel for my Shakespeare videos, and also, as it happens, it is my first posting on the new blog too. To make it easier to remember them, I've even given them the same name. Academic life is becoming ever more complex, and one of the things we are being expected to do more and  more (in addition to everything else) is to establish not just an online presence, but a more visually active and interactive one. The recent and ongoing virus situation has accelerated the trend, and I have been receiving more and more requests about doing some video presentations, especially from the Outreach people at the university where I work. Outreach is becoming increasingly important. Not only does it have important educational benefits (obviously!) but it is something of a recruitment tool. It make...