Okstate Shakespeare Digital Humanities in Undergraduate Group Projects

Okstate. Shakespeare: Digital Humanities in Undergraduate Group Projects __________________________ David D. Oberhelman Oklahoma State University Library

Background and Project • Oklahoma State U English prof. approached Library about having students in Shakespeare & History class curate (physical) exhibits on Raphael Holinshed’s Chronicles of England, Scotland, and Ireland (1587) we have in print and online in EEBO • Group project changed to online exhibits/guides—small-scale digital humanities sites on Holinshed • Librarians provided sessions on the book/print history, primary and secondary text research, and created class site in Word. Press • Word. Press training and more research help sessions added • Digital showcase session for student groups at end of the semester

Holinshed and Shakespeare Assignment • In this project, we will create an online companion to Raphael Holinshed’s four volume edition of the Chronicles (1587) housed in the Library Special Collections archive. This companion will consist of a general overview and outline of Holinshed’s text along with more detailed presentations examining specific aspects of the text such as its background and production, its reception and influence, and the intellectual and political contexts within which it was produced and received. We will seek to create a supplement and online exhibit about this unique text and its relation to Shakespeare. We will use this project as a platform to situate both writers within the context and practices of the early modern study of history (i. e. before the modern disciplinary / professional model that we might find in a modern day university classroom develops in 18 th – 20 th century).

Word. Press Website – http: //okstateshakeseare. wordpress. com

Adaptations Projects

Macbeth Analysis

Henry V

Film Adaptations of Henry V

Just War Theory and Agincourt

Henry IV

Digital Showcase

Inspecting Holinshed Volumes

Student Groups at Showcase

Future Plans • Introduce students to textual/stylistic analysis with Holinshed • Work with library graphic design/video intern to create more interactive sites • Fall 2015 – Metaphysical Poets course project with devotional verse by Elizabeth Newell (Beinecke Library paleography site) – http: //earlymodernpaleography. library. yale. edu/ •

Holinshed Project parallel texts – http: //www. cems. ox. ac. uk/holinshed/index. shtml

Textual Analysis – http: //voyeurtools. org

David Oberhelman d. oberhelman@okstate. edu