Shakespeare Off the Map

Stella Wisdom, Digital Curator

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Blog: http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/digital-scholarship/

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The Off the Map Competition?

• A new type of collaboration• Explores how British Library digital collections can be used in creative ways• Engagement with new audiences • Opportunity for students in the UK to showcase their talents to industry

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C.J. Visscher, London , 1616 (detail) Maps C.5.a.6

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John Leake, An exact surveigh of the streets lanes and churches contained within the ruines of the City of London, 1667. Maps Crace port 2.58

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2013 winning team: Pudding Lane Productions from De Montfort University, Leicester Created an interpretation of 17th Century Londonhttp://youtu.be/SPY-hr-8-M0 (Flythrough starts at 0:50)

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2014 winning team: Gothulus Rift, University of South WalesCreated a Fonthill Abbey inspired game called Nix using Oculus RiftBlog: http://nixgamedevblog.blogspot.co.uk YouTube flythrough: http://youtu.be/8ESieZO4VHw  

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2015 Winning Game:“The Wondering Lands of Alice”Team Off our Rockers, from De Montfort University in Leicester:YouTube flythrough: https://youtu.be/7bwx4uUnbV4

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#Shakespeare400

2016 commemorations of 400 years since the death of William Shakespeare

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The 2016 Off the Map competition Three sub-themes

Castles: Scene of Ghosts and Murder

The Tempest

Forests, Woodlands and A Midsummer Night’s Dream

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Castles: scene of ghosts and murder in Shakespeare

Hamlet is set in ElsinoreShakespeare’s version of Kronborg Castle in Helsingør, Denmark.

View of Elsinore, taken from Civitates Orbis Terrarum, 1600. C.29.e.1.

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The Tempest

The Tempest opens with a storm battering the ship on which Alonso, the King of Naples, and his party are travelling. Washed ashore, Alonso’s men find themselves on a strange island inhabited by Prospero the magician, his daughter Miranda, a shape-shifting spirit called Ariel, and the slave Caliban.

Frontispiece to The Tempest in The Works of Mr William Shakespear (1709), edited by Nicholas Rowe. C.123.fff.2. Volume 1, p1

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The TempestShakespeare was inspired to write The Tempest when he read of the fate of the Sea-Adventure, a ship taking English colonists to North America which was wrecked off the coast of Bermuda in 1609. The Bermudas were then the most feared place on earth for sea travellers, who had heard stories about the islands being inhabited by devils.

Map of Bermuda as published in Gerhard Mercator and Jodocus Hondius' world atlas of 1633. Maps K.Top 123

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Forests, Woodlands and A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Scenes from Shakespeare for the Young. Illustrated by H. Sidney … 1885. 1871.e.4

It is in A Midsummer Night’s Dream that the truly magical nature of woodlands is fully revealed. In the play thwarted lovers flee into the woods around Athens and unwittingly find their lives transformed by fairy enchantment.

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Sound files: https://soundcloud.com/the-british-library/sets/shakespeare-off-the-map

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Off the Map 2016 1st Place: “The Tempest” by Team QuattroTeam Members: Tara Naz, Jasdev Singh, Jade Silver, Christopher Anka, Perrie Green, Joel WilkinsDe Montfort University, LeicesterYouTube flythrough: https://youtu.be/0lzpEFgpk3YBlog: http://christopheranka.wixsite.com/offthemap

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Off the Map 2016 1st Place: “The Tempest” by Team QuattroDe Montfort University, LeicesterTeam Members: Tara Naz, Jasdev Singh, Jade Silver, Christopher Anka, Perrie Green, Joel Wilkins

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Off the Map 2016 1st place: “The Tempest” by Team QuattroYouTube flythrough: https://youtu.be/0lzpEFgpk3YBlog: http://christopheranka.wixsite.com/offthemap

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Off the Map 2016 2nd Place:‘Midsummer’ by Tom BatteyLondon College of Communication Blog: http://tombattey.com/design/developing-interactive-dialogue-in-midsummer/

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Off the Map 2016 2nd Place:‘Midsummer’ by Tom BatteyLondon College of Communication Blog: http://tombattey.com/design/developing-interactive-dialogue-in-midsummer/

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Off the Map 2016 3rd Place:‘This Most Desolate Isle’ by Alan StewartBrunel University

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For 2017: There Will Be Fun Off The Map

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Three themes:

1. Illusions, magic and impersonators

2. Outdoor places of entertainment – Fairground, travelling shows

3. Indoor places of entertainment – Music Hall and Pantomime

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Stella Wisdom, Digital Curator @miss_wisdom Digital Scholarship Bloghttp://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/digital-scholarship

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