Learning on Screen"Altered Much About the Hearing It"
- Alternative title
- Shakespeare in Sign Language
- Synopsis
- Podcast from the Folger Shakespeare Library.
Gallaudet University in Washington, DC, is the world’s only university designed to be barrier-free for deaf and hard of hearing students. For more than 150 years, its students have been performing Shakespeare without spoken words. During October 2016, the Folger’s nationwide First Folio tour is at Gallaudet, which also has a companion exhibition "First Folio: Eyes on Shakespeare," curated by Jill Bradbury, a Gallaudet English professor, and Gallaudet Museum Director Meredith Peruzzi. In this podcast Bradbury talks to Neva Grant and gives a tour of the exhibition and of the world of Shakespeare in sign language. - Series
- Shakespeare Unlimited
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Audio
- Recording date
- 18 Oct 2016
- Duration
- 27 mins
Credits
- Producer
- Richard Paul
- Contributor
- Jill Bradbury; Neva Grant
Additional Details
- Production type
- Documentary/Educational/News
- Subjects
- Drama
- Keywords
- deaf persons; hearing-impaired persons; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); sign languages; American sign language
Notes
- Notes
- Podcast: http://www.folger.edu/shakespeare-unlimited-episode-59 (accessed 10/2016). Transcript at: http://www.folger.edu/sites/default/files/ShaxUnlimited_Gallaudet_Transcript.pdf
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