Principal Investigator
Prof. Peter Donaldson, Literature Section; Prof. Diana Henderson, Literature Section; Prof. Shankar Raman, Literature Section
Fund:
d'Arbeloff Fund
Funding Period:
AY2014
Department/Lab/Center:
Literature
This project builds on the work of the <i>Global Shakespeares Video and Performance Archive</i> (<a href="http://globalshakespeares.mit.edu">http://globalshakespeares.mit.edu</a…;) and the Global Shakespeare Curricular Initiative at MIT (Prof.s Donaldson, Diana Henderson, Shankar Raman, Janet Sonenberg and Jay Scheib). MIT has become an international leader in moving the Shakespeare educational community toward global models through these projects.
Most recently, the Global Shakespeare Project has created an online module on the highly-regarded actor/director Wu Hsing-kuo's one-man show version of King Lear. (<a href="http://globalshakespeares.mit.edu/modules/module/lear-is-here/">http://…;). This is the first-ever online module in Shakespeare education to use video authoring tools and has now been successfully used at MIT and at George Washington University. The project have learned a great deal from the King Lear module, and with revision it will become one of a series of online modules that will lead to a full semester subject that can be used throughout the world.