via Huffington Post Education: READ magazine and The Ophelia Project are staging Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing on Facebook, of all places. Here is a kind of Facebook activity that isn’t entirely incurious. I mean, these people could be posting updates on the breakfast bagel they just bought, or something like that. But instead, they worked together to create a social media adaptation of a Shakespeare play. Props to them.
Don’t expect any actual Shakespearean language, but it’s not a bunch of garbled txt-speak, either. Some of the videos, like “Claudio’s Apology” are acted, not just talking heads. The whole thing is fascinating. (I think.) What do you make of it?
You can see all of the posts in chronological order by visiting this Tumblr blog, in case you weren’t aware in time to “Like” all the players so that their feeds showed up in your feed (it just sounds weird, that someone else’s feed would appear in my feed. Stay out of my feed!) Oh, and on the Huff Post page linked above you can see a very funny hip-hop animation summary of the play, just in case you forgot the details of the play, such as Benedick wanting to “stay solo like a plastic cup.”
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