Discover the Shakesperience
A Hands-On Experience With Shakespeare
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Explore Shakespeare’s plays in unexpected and exciting new ways with The Shakesperience, which combine an engagingly touchable interface with remarkable audio, video, photos, and illustrations to create an interactive, hands-on Shakespeare experience unlike any you’ve ever seen before.
Harnessing the most current and dynamic features of the innovative authoring tool, iBooks Author, The Shakesperience brings Shakespeare’s plays to life in interesting and engaging new ways.
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The Shakesperience—Now Available in the iBookstore℠
See all The Shakesperience Plays at: http://www.itunes.com/shakesperience
The Shakesperience—Easier...At Your Fingertips
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Understanding Shakespeare is now easier.
Each Shakesperience play combines a touchable interface with a fully integrated, at-your-fingertips glossary that allows you to read the text and immediately understand what it means.
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The Shakesperience—Lets You Hear and See the Best Performances
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Narrated by Sir Derek Jacobi
Sir Derek Jacobi introduces each audio clip, illuminating the scenes and performances. Included are some of the best actors from around the world, including Dame Judi Dench, Kenneth Branagh, Orson Welles, Sir Laurence Olivier and more.
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Hear Legendary Performances
Legendary Shakespeare performances from around the world are included right along with the text. Multiple audio recordings of the same scene allow readers to experience how hearing the language in different ways can completely change a scene.
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The Shakesperience—Helps You Picture the Plays
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Our in-book visuals come from some of the best performances. Each gallery bursts off the page with photos, production notes, set renderings, and costume designs. Pictures and sketches give readers a look at the costumes, scenery, and other aspects of the plays being performed.
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The Shakesperience—Makes the Plays Friendly and Fascinating
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Shakesperience changes the way you read Shakespeare.
Developed with leading Shakespearean scholars and ideal for students, each Shakesperience play provides special features that enhance the reader’s experience and make it the most friendly and fascinating Shakespeare you can imagine.
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The Shakesperience—Makes Magic with the Best Features of the iPad
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The Shakesperience makes magic happen with all the best features of your iPad, including:
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Touch, tap, and swipe through the play. |
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Feature-packed, but in a compact file size and no wifi needed! |
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Full highlighting and note-taking abilities. |
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Fully reflowable and resizable text in portrait or landscape views that allow you to read the text you want. |
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Photo galleries that can be swiped and enlarged to bring the play to life. |
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The Shakesperience—Helps you read, teach and learn Shakespeare
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Teachers tell us it takes three weeks for students to become comfortable with Shakespeare’s language. The Shakesperience is designed to change the way you read Shakespeare.
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A combination of embedded glossary and audio helps students more quickly build their ability to understand Shakespears’s language |
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“Audio is very useful in teaching Shakespeare; without the visual reference of a video, students are forced to listen closely.”—Ann Basso, University of South Florida |
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In just a few swipes and taps, readers start the play and are able to move around as their curiosity dictates. |
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The Shakesperience is the most student-friendly Shakespeare for every learning style. |
Using Shakesperience in the Classroom
You are invited to an exclusive webinar on November 1st at 2:30 CDT to see how great teachers, great content, and the iPad will change how Shakespeare is taught.
Download the The Shakesperience Media Kit
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Download the The Shakesperience Media Kit.
Included in the kit you will find:
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Our press release |
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Product images for use on the web |
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Cover images for each of The Shakesperience plays |
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Shakesperience logos, and more... |
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Tell Us What You Think
We’re incredibly excited about working with you to create your own personal Shakesperience. If you’re using one of The Shakesperience plays and have suggestions, questions, comments, teacher’s resources to share, photos, videos, thoughts or ideas, please email:
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. And thank you for your help and interest.
See all The Shakesperience Plays at: http://www.itunes.com/shakesperience
