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Program demystifies Shakespeare's plays
The Associated Press
There's enough material to fill hundreds of pages not just on the play, but history, stagecraft, language, character and plot. And that's just "Hamlet." The "book" also contains "Romeo and Juliet," "Midsummer Night's Dream" and "Macbeth."
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — Shakespeare's plays have endured the ages and interpretation of thousands of actors, some great and many less so.
But can the Bard's work survive the computer, as text turns from ink to images?
Bresko's company is shipping samples on 31/2-inch floppy disks to 1,000 educators around the country for field testing. The company expects to go to market in January with both floppy disks and compact discs, which will contain movie clips of Shakespearean productions.
"Most definitely," said Laura Bresko. "If anything, the computer may be the modern stage that brings Shakespeare—the ramifications, the lessons we learn, the cultural transmissions—back into the modern generations."
If so, Bresko's tiny start-up company, Communication and Information Technologies Inc. of Knoxville, Tenn., may play a part. Its BookWorm Press is coming out with a quartet of Shakespeare's plays in an "electronic book."
Not simply "to be or not to be" on a computer screen, BookWorm's "Hamlet" contains annotations, major criticism, summaries of acts and scenes, a dictionary and as many as 50 illustrations — from wood cuts to Picasso.
The electronic book industry is embryonic. Bresko said BookWorm is the next step beyond current offerings for the "technoliterate set flying around on their airplanes wanting to read their books and not really put their computer down."
BookWorm books are tools that bring together a massive amount of information from which users can draw and to which they can add at their own pace and inclination in unstructured style.
BookWorm fashioned its first offering for the literary market for a couple of business reasons — no copyrights to worry about and it's a wide-open market, Bresko said.
"Everybody has to take English literature," she said.
But inherent in the study of literature "are all the tools that anybody uses to process any information regardless of what the subject matter is—highlighter pens, reference materials, encyclopedias, dictionaries, notebooks, etc.," she said. All of those are contained in the BookWorm Press.
Bresko, 32, is uniquely suited to the task. The daughter of a teacher, she holds a master's degree in English literature from the University of Tennessee and worked for several years as a consultant in technical communications at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
ENTERTAINMENT '93 • K-you • September 24, 1993
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