Romeo and Juliet: The Shakesperience

A Hands-on Experience with Shakespeare Experience Romeo and Juliet in an unexpected and exciting new way with The Shakesperience, which combines an engaging interface + remarkable audio + photos and illustrations to create an interactive Shakespeare experience unlike any you’ve ever seen. Get Into Reading Romeo and Juliet Faster Our at-your-fingertip features allow you to more quickly immerse in and engage with the text. At Your Fingertips --Complete glossary with embedded explanations (more than 750 terms!) allows you to immediately translate words you don’t know into contemporary English --The result? Reading Shakespeare is easier and you’ll “get” the play much faster. Simply put, we’ll change the way you read Shakespeare. Performance Audio First in a line of groundbreaking ebooks, Romeo and Juliet: The Shakesperience takes you from the page to the stage with audio embedded right in the scenes. Shakespeare’s plays come alive in performance, and you’ll see and hear some of the world’s best, including: --Kenneth Branagh as Romeo and Sir John Gielgud as Friar Laurence --An historic audio excerpt from 1911 featuring Ellen Terry as Juliet --Sir Derek Jacobi acts as your narrator and explains the differences between each performance – you’ll experience scenes changing based on how they’re performed! --And much, much more Visuals Our visuals come directly from some of the best performances with galleries that burst off the page with photos, production notes, set renderings, and costume designs. VitalSource Bookshelf Through the VitalSource® Bookshelf®, you can access your books on multiple devices, whether you’re connected to the Internet or not. Highlight passages, take notes (which you can search through later), and work collaboratively with friends and teachers by subscribing to their notes. Developed with leading Shakespearean scholars and ideal for students, Romeo and Juliet: The Shakesperience’s dynamic special features enhance the experience and make it the most friendly and fascinating Shakespeare you can imagine: --How does an actor “Speak Shakespeare”? Former voice coach to the Royal Shakespeare Company Andrew Wade shows you --A full cast of actors explains how they approached their roles --Romeo and Juliet as performed—renowned scholar David Bevington’s take on an historic 1811 production in Covent Garden --Romeo and Juliet in pop culture, from movies and music to urban gang rivalry Text Editor William Proctor Williams is professor of English emeritus at Northern Illinois University and Adjunct Professor of English at the University of Akron. He has published widely on editorial, bibliographical and English Renaissance subjects, and has received numerous grants and awards including a National Endowment for the Humanities research grant and a Senior Fulbright Research Fellowship; in 2003-04, he was the Hinman Fellow at the Folger Shakespeare Library. He is currently at work on editions of Thomas Heywood’s The First and Second Parts of King Edward the Fourth and If You Know Not Me You Know No Body, Parts 1 and 2 for the Oxford University Press edition of Heywood’s complete works, the New Variorum Edition of Titus Andronicus (MLA), and a critical edition of the manuscript and printed works of Cosmo Manuche. System Requirements for Bookshelf Online This VitalBook is currently supported on the most current version of each of the below browsers: Microsoft Internet Explorer Mozilla Firefox Apple Safari Google Chrome Opera This VitalBook is currently supported on the most current version of each of the below VitalSource Bookshelf application platforms: Apple Macintosh Microsoft Windows Apple iOS Google Android The Shakesperience is currently not supported on Kindle or Nook. For more information please visit: http://sn.im/bookshelf-browsers