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Jane Austen's fiction manuscripts are the first significant body of holograph evidence surviving for any British novelist. They represent every stage of her writing career and a variety of physical states: working drafts, fair copies, and handwritten publications for private circulation. Digitization enables their virtual reunification and will provides scholars with the first opportunity to make simultaneous ocular comparison of their different physical and conceptual states; it will facilitate intimate and systematic study of Austen's working practices across her career, a remarkably neglected area of scholarship within the huge, world-wide Austen critical industry. Many of the Austen manuscripts are frail; open and sustained access has long been impossible for conservation and location reasons. Digitization at this stage in their lives not only offers the opportunity for the virtual reunification of a key manuscript resource, it will also be accompanied by a record in as complete a form as possible of the conservation history and current material state of these manuscripts to assist their future conservation.

Being literate in a real-world sense means being able to read and write using the media forms of the day, whatever they may be. For centuries, consuming and producing words through reading and writing and, to a lesser extent, listening and speaking were sufficient. But because of inexpensive, easy-to-use, and widely available new tools, literacy now requires being conversant with new forms of media as well as text, including sound, graphics, and moving images.

A lasting online resource and a companion project for Shakespeare in American Life, a radio documentary produced by Richard Paul and narrated by Sam Waterston, airing on Public Radio International (PRI) stations beginning in April 2007.

Annual contest: write a letter to the author of a poem or book that changed your life. Great writing assignment.

Some of these videos would be great for teaching sonnets, especially if you want students to act them out.

Plagiarism presentation with tips on paraphrasing and discussion of structure, words, ideas.

If this is the future of studying a Shakespeare play, sign me up.

Shakespeare Geek, a lifelong computer geek and Shakespeare lover, explains how Shakespeare and information technology are connected.

Shakespeare gets it right again. Washing your hands may help "scrub away the inner turmoil you feel."

Resources for teaching mythology, including Reader's Theater approach and Webquests.

Spell with flickr is a neat app that allows you to create banners or other text with flickr images. Perfect for embedding in wikis or using on blogs or other Web sites.

Great resource for William Shakespeare.

David Tennant and Sir Patrick Stewart star in this new version of Hamlet broadcast on PBS.

"A Muse of Fire" from the BBC/PBS documentary The Story of English examines the number of words coined by Shakespeare.

Certainly the bard was a fan of the bawdy joke. Here Shmoop explains them along with modern song equivalents.

Did Shakespeare malign Elizabeth Woodville as some have claimed he maligned Richard III?

This handy blog post explains why you should never ever use "alot."

Statistical techniques can give us a good estimate of how many words Shakespeare knew based on how many he used.

Create word clouds from texts in a variety of shapes. Requires Microsoft Silverlight.