Sourcebooks Announces The Shakesperience: Multi-Touch Editions Change the Way You Read Shakespeare
Features include:
• A complete glossary with explanations embedded, which allows for immediate translation of words into contemporary English (for example, Othello has over 1,400 embedded terms).
• Scene-setting audio introductions by award-winning actor Sir Derek Jacobi.
• Legendary performances integrated and embedded alongside the text. Hear some of the best Shakespeare performances from around the world, including Dame Judi Dench, Kenneth Branagh, Orson Welles, Sir Laurence Olivier, Sir John Gielgud, and Paul Robeson.
• Multiple audio and visual performances of particular scenes, allowing readers to experience the differences produced in various approaches to Shakespeare's language.
• Rare, private recordings by Edwin Booth, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and others.
• Spectacular image galleries with photographs, production notes, set renderings, and costume design that help the play burst off the page.
• A Voice Coach's Perspective on Speaking Shakespeare by Andrew Wade, former voice coach to the Royal Shakespeare Company
• A view from the director's chair including interviews with a full cast of actors on how they approached their roles, and much more.