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Re: Shakespeare and Twitter Make an Odd Couple

Jack Morgan — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 09:55:16 -0000

I like things like this just for fun are really cool, but they probably won't catch on except as a parlor trick, which is fine. @ascstaunton the American Shakespeare Center is using Twitter more and more, though.

This is just proof that no matter where media and culture goes, Shakespeare continues to stalk it.

Re: Shakespeare and Twitter Make an Odd Couple

susbarefoot — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 11:19:05 -0000

This is a riff off a blogger I read, who did 18 tweets shakespeare would do, and freud would do.

http://www.abdpbt.com/2008/...

Re: Shakespeare and Twitter Make an Odd Couple

@scribblegurl — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 03:15:59 -0000

actually, i think it's kinda brilliant and well-done, but very hard to follow.

Re: Shakespeare and Twitter Make an Odd Couple

Leah — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 04:05:51 -0000

I love this! Would love to do ""A Twitter's Midsummer Night's Dream".
To be Puck or Tatiana would be nice. Thanks for the post.

Re: Shakespeare and Twitter Make an Odd Couple

Charles Ju — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 11:14:48 -0000

When I see something like this, I just think about how I can program a script to do this for me.

Re: Shakespeare and Twitter Make an Odd Couple

Tarla Cummings — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 14:31:46 -0000

Do I think it will be a riveting performance? No, but two thumbs up for creativity derived from way too much free time. I'm going to have to check it out, when does this masterpiece begin?

Re: Shakespeare and Twitter Make an Odd Couple

Chris — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 13:52:12 -0000

As a serious Shakespeare enthusiast who makes regular use of twitter (@moremattrlessrt) to promote a site devoted to the guy and engage in as much discussion as I can, I'm still not sure I buy into playing the whole thing out over such a limited medium. The beauty of his work is in its richness and its language, and that's really the one thing you can't compromise. We'll see how it turns out, I suppose.

Re: Shakespeare and Twitter Make an Odd Couple

knowledge management — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 11:45:13 -0000

Thanks,
I'm not use Twitter
but play use Twitter go to next time

Re: Shakespeare and Twitter Make an Odd Couple

the constant skeptic — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 11:36:32 -0000

Wow... I think we need some post-modern plays performed on twitter. This might even spark a whole new genre of 'micro-plays'.

Re: Shakespeare and Twitter Make an Odd Couple

jason — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 09:10:13 -0000

"Twitter is good for a lot of things, but is it good for drama, where (usually) you have actors sharing the same stageâ€¦and, you know, acting?"

you could say the same thing about a book. but most plays seem to translate okay to that medium.

Re: Shakespeare and Twitter Make an Odd Couple

George Snell — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 08:13:22 -0000

There's more than just Shakespeare on Twitter. How about Mark Twain?
Edgar Allan Poe? You can follow Superman or Batman. Or just about every
Star Wars character there is. A good list of all the fictional Twitter
accounts here: http://tinyurl.com/bkbq5b

Re: Shakespeare and Twitter Make an Odd Couple

Dave Martin — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 08:06:42 -0000

Actually, you can catch Shakespeare every Sat on the Twitter. @martindave
tweets the bard as Saturday Shakespeare. http://twitter.com/martinda...

Re: Shakespeare and Twitter Make an Odd Couple

Peter van Grieken — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 07:57:05 -0000

Actually, this seems like an evolution from the Billion Monkeys-account:
http://twitter.com/billionm...

Re: Shakespeare and Twitter Make an Odd Couple

Michael O'Connor Clarke — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 07:55:52 -0000

"Shakespeare And Twitter Make an Odd Couplet."

-- there. Fixed that for you.