Seminar No. 4.6.

Title: www.shakespeare.com

Leaders:

Susan Bennett (University of Calgary, Canada)
Christie Carson (Royal Holloway College, University of London, UK)

Participants:

Susan Brock (Shakespeare Birthplace Trust)
Elizabeth Hageman (University of New Hampshire)
James L. Harner (Texas, A&M University)
Barbara Mathieson (Southern Oregon University)
Jim Shaw (Shakespeare Institute Library)
Alan Somerset (University of Western Ontario)
Mary Steible (Southern Illinois University)
Fran Teague (University of Georgia)
Alan Young (Acadia University)

Abstract:

There has been a significant and exciting adoption of new technologies in the production of scholarly research and
teaching tools for the study of Shakespeare. Yet it is our belief that the potential of these new technologies has not yet
been tested in terms of the ways in which they might expand, revise and challenge the ways we research and teach the
plays. Our seminar seeks to bring together participants from different settings and locations (the academy, the archive, the
theatre, the commercial sector) to discuss and demonstrate some of the most innovative digitally-based research/teaching
materials available; to criticize their integrity, usefulness and credentials and to speculate about future developments in this
area.