Research & Scholarly Work
Exploring Shakespeare through Time and Technology
Stephen Wittek, assistant professor, Department of English
Christopher Warren, professor and associate head, Department of English
audience . Stephen Wittek , assistant professor of English, led the Shakespeare- VR project that uses virtual reality (VR) technologies to enrich students’ understanding of Shakespearean drama and the conditions of performance in the early modern theater. In the program, students use VR to come face-to-face with professional actors performing Shakespeare in venues like the Globe and Blackfriars theatres. Christopher Warren , professor of English and associate English Department faculty led two initiatives to bring Shakespeare to a broader
department head, led the Print & Probability project, which uses computational tools and methods to detect new evidence in early printed books. Warren and his colleagues determined that Robert Roberts printed the first section of Shakespeare’s Fourth Folio and have identified the printers of additional sections of the folio.
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