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Shakespeare Research Presentation Assignment
Shakespeare's Influence Today
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All the world’s a stage Jaques, As You Like It There is always a performance of Shakespeare under way There were an average of 410 professional productions of Shakespeare every year between 1959 and 2015, according to the World Shakespeare Bibliography. Some may be one-off performances but other productions can run for the entire year - which would suggest there are enough around the world to fill every hour of every day, though scheduling means they are not necessarily running round the clock. A Midsummer Night’s Dream has been the most popular, with at least 2,058 productions over that period, followed by Hamlet with 1,917 productions. Then there are the 1,151 writer credits that Shakespeare has on IMDb, and the 2.6m UK sales of Shakespeare books that Nielsen, which provides book data, has recorded over the past decade. |
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| Yueng, Peter, et al. “What’s in a Number? William Shakespeare’s Legacy Analyzed.” The Guardian, 22 Apr. 2016. Infographic |
Use this list of questions to guide the creation of your PPT slides. Synthesize the information provided for you on this page to answer the questions.
Shakespeare wrote his plays over 400 years ago. The information on this page supports the idea that today an entire industry of literature, theater art and/or scholarship exists because of Shakespeare's plays.
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Folger Shakespeare Library, January 19. 2018 |
The National Archives (United Kingdom), January 17, 2018 |
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Wall Street Journal,March 9, 2016 |
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BFI British Film Institute |
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Folger Shakespeare Library |
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Works Cited
“David Tennant Explains Why Shakespeare Still Matters.” YouTube, uploaded by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, 28 Apr. 2016, www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=3&v=nIZ_eq0vLfc. Accessed 20 Jan. 2018.
Maloney, Jennifer. “Handwriting Expert Makes New Shakespeare Discovery.” The Wall Street Journal, 9 Mar. 2016, Life & Arts sec. The Wall Street Journal, www.wsj.com/articles/handwriting-expert-makes-new-shakespeare-discoveries-1457550374. Accessed 22 Jan. 2018.
Paul, Richard, producer. “Why Shakespeare’s Stories Still Resonate.” Shakespeare Unlimited, episode 8, Folger Shakespeare Library, 14 Aug. 2014, www.folger.edu/shakespeare-unlimited/why-shakespeare-stories-still-resonate?_ga=2.49013798.166375884.1516129197-1028985580.1516129197. Accessed 17 Jan. 2018.
“Shakespeare documents recognised by UNESCO International Memory of the World Programme.” The National Archives Newsletter, 17 Jan. 2018. The National Archives, www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/about/news/shakespeare-documents-recognised-unesco-international-memory-of-world-programme/. Accessed 20 Jan. 2018.
“Shakespeare on the Screen.” BFI Screenonline, edited by Michael Brooke, www.screenonline.org.uk/film/id/444972/.
Shakespeare’s Legacy. Narrated by Gordan McMullan and Lucy Munro, King’s College, London, 2016. YouTube, www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JGjYbBv1gY. Accessed 20 Jan. 2018.
“UNESCO gives ‘Shakespeare documents’ cultural status on its Memory of the World register.” Shakespeare & Beyond, Folger Shakesepeare Library, 19 Jan. 2018, shakespeareandbeyond.folger.edu/2018/01/19/unesco-shakespeare-documents-cultural-status-memory-of-the-world/. Accessed 23 Jan. 2018.
Yueng, Peter, et al. “What’s in a Number? William Shakespeare’s Legacy Analyzed.” The Guardian, 22 Apr. 2016, www.theguardian.com/culture/ng-interactive/2016/apr/22/william-shakespeares-legacy-analysed#top. Accessed 20 Jan. 2018. Infographic.