March 10, 2009

415 years – it was worth the wait!

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Romeo and Juliette

Romeo and Juliette

Yep, it’s happened. Shakespeare on Twitter. That didn’t take long now, did it?

According to Florida Creatives, “Twitter of the Shrew – adapted for Twitter by @BrianFeldman from the classic comedy attributed to William Shakespeare, with additional material by @irenelpynn, is a Twitter adaptation of The Taming of the Shrew (1590-1594). Spanning 19 Twitter accounts and presented over 12 days (one scene per day), “Twitter of the Shrew” attempts to live up to Shakespeare’s ‘Brevity is the soul of wit’ proverb, by condensing the play’s iambic pentameter dialogue down to updates of 140 characters or less.” Now that’s a tough writing assignment.

So from February 14th to 25th one scene daily was twitted — to such wide success, that now there are rumblings of Romeo and Juliette. Hark, what bird through yonder window breaks!

Valerie Merians is the co-founder and co-publisher of Melville House.

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