2011

Rose Power

Sunday 4 December 2011

Shakespeare's Twitter

Someone has been regurgitating the entire works of Shakespeare, one play at a time, via Twitter.


What does this do to the works?
It certainly puts emphasis on certain words as often sentences have to be broken up to fit into the '140 character or less' format. The context is interesting, as people are most likely to read the posts amongst the other posts on their Twitter feed rather than all together.

It's amusing that the person doing this claims to be Shakespeare himself "tweeting from the grave". It leads us to imagine how great writers would cope if they were alive now; would they adapt to our fixation on social networking sites?

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