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Shakespeare Illuminated Texts
Illuminated Texts on or related to the plays and sonnets of William Shakespeare. Some of these are created using Microsoft Power Point and to hear the audio you will need to be using Windows, have Internet Explorer as your browser. For the presentations done using Adobe Flash you will need to have the Adobe Flash Player (most computers already do). For .mp4 presentations, Quicktime is required.
A student Power Point presentation illuminating Shakespeare's Sonnet #60. This Illuminated Text was created before the Sonnet Research Project -- and these moving poems helped lay the foundation for that activity. There is now a Flash Video version - if you have any trouble viewing the Power Point Illuminated Text. If you do click on the Power Point edition and if you wish to hear the sound you must use Interent Explorer, on a PC, and be sure to choose Open in Browser, rather than saving it to your disk.
This presentation, created using Microsoft Power Point, makes wonderful use of space and color to make Shakespeare's words "come alive." The words and letters become trees -- the background changes depending on the tone and meaning of a line -- in short, nothing is wasted and every movement, animation, and image has a relationship the poet's text. This Illluminated Text has also proven to be one of the most popular on the site. Also please note that there is now a Video Version of this Illuminated Text if you have had trouble viewing or hearing the Power Point Version.
In this presentation the students, Jade Fleming and Lynette Hines, use an animated rose and child to help show their interpretation of Shakespeare's words. Again, the students use a song that has lyrics -- but the words only add to the overall presentation and d
For this soliloquie I choose to do the one from Act 5 Sc 5. In this one Macbeth finds about his wife's death and is remembering the reasons for him becoming king. There is a specific reason why I choose the song that is played in this illuminated text and that is because my piano teacher talked about this song and told a story on how the theme of the song is always reoccuring.
An illuminated text on Shakespeare's Sonnet #60. You may have noticed that some authors of Illuminated Texts keep showing up again and again. These are two such authors. They begin their presentation by concentrating on the words - white on black - then black on white. They explicate the meaning by concentrating on those words - then they seem to almost ease into showing more and more pictures now that they have the viewer's attention. A great Illuminated Text.
This animated version of Shakespeare's Sonnet #8 by Oluremi Olefemi and Courtney Hong is the perfect example of what the Illuminated Text could and should be. The students use Shakespeare's words - use a central metaphor of music and musical notation to explore the meaning of his text. Every movement, images, is spot-on. There is a great opening -- and you will find what we've been calling (on this site and participants from the Folger Shakespeare's Library Teaching Shakespeare Institute) "Stephen Booth moments" scattered throughout the presentatioin. A terrific job.
Students, Lena Dimitroff and Carolyn Isaacson, use Microsoft's Power Point to create a powerful and evocative interpretation of Shakespeare's Sonnet. Through images such as a desert flower blooming and their impressive use of color and fonts, the Bard's wo
For our Illuminated text we pulled from 2 soliloquies: one by Lady Macbeth (Act 1 Scene 5) and one from Macbeth (Act 1 Scene 7). They were meant to contrast each other by showing how desperately Lady Macbeth craved to do the deed of killing Duncan and Macbeth is voicing his apprehension to the action. For being husband and wife they could not have two more different opinions (hence our title). [They did a great job here - and that starts with their concentration on the actual text - the choice of font - and the animations that they use that explicate Shakespeare's words. JRS] 
This Power Point presentation by Natalie Jeung and Monica Villegas wows from the very first moment, when two large "I"'s move across the screen. From a talking Shakespeare to their wonderfully appropriate use of images -- this Illuminated Text pushes the limits of its m
This presentation by Zoe Damacela and Brenda Morales takes the viewer into a dark forest where they explore the depth and meaning of Shakespeare's words. The music, that the students initially had problems getting to work, matches the movement of their words very nicely. Of all the problems in putting together an Illuminated Text using Power Point, it is sound that can be the most vexing. In 2008, I started having students turn in a check list with their work to try to get them to save time. The list is available at this site.
This Illuminated Text particularly highlights Macbeth, and the darkness. This passage was chosen because it emphasized themes that related to death and life, and the somberness of their relationship. The music emphasizes that theme, using an organ sounds and a haunting chorusing. It was taken from Macbeth, 3.3.51-60. The last three lines were excluded because it didn't fit the theme that was drawn from the chosen passages.
Mark Hermanson and Aaron Fioritto use Adobe's Flash here for great effect. One of the most amazing things about these Flash-based Illuminated Texts is that the students were learning the program as they were trying to put together their presentation. Through their use of effects such as an animated clock, a sorrow-changing heart, and their use of fades for very specific pieces of text -- it is clear that they learned their lesson well. 
This Illuminated Text by Debra Chin, is a close study of "honor" as it appears in William Shakespeare's Henry IV, Part 1. Specifically, it focuses on Falstaff's view of that word -- and as such, she does an incredible job of conveying the words and ideas of the play. I have said before that writing a good Illuminated Text shares many of the same qualities as writing a good essay -- and this presentation bears that idea out. First, the student had to find all of the appropriate lines and then she had to find a way of putting them together in a way that shows a "bigger truth." And that is exactly what she does - the background images of ancient battles and death play behind Falstaff's timeless words on the meaning of honor and death.Fresh Ink - Most Recent Content
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