Title:

Digital Shakespeare: Reception and Cultural Status in the New Media Age

Project Outcomes:

Two workshops brought together Nottingham and Birmingham’s experts in digital culture and new media with its scholars of Shakespeare and his reception. This enabled the examination and analysis of the presence of Shakespeare in new media, including authorship and authority. Participants considered how Shakespeare’s cultural resonance and reputation circulate and are constructed in digital culture and performance. Topics were considered from theoretical and methodological perspectives, and participants engaged with some of the key issues at stake in the digital humanities today: the challenges of data gathering and analysis, and the reconfiguration of expertise.

This project investigated how major cultural organisations are navigating the opportunities and challenges of working with Shakespeare in digital culture. and involved the engagement of:

• the British Library
• Royal Shakespeare Company
• Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre
• Library of Birmingham
• Cambridge University Press 
• Illuminations Media

Further research with these organisations plans to maximise the understanding of people’s experiences of digital culture.