Women of Shakespeare

As you may or may not know, I have a YouTube channel. I share it with my best friend, Claire, and we post a video every week. Last summer, Claire and I decided to create the biggest project we had ever done. It was a choose your own adventure video. We created situations and figured out how the Women of Shakespeare would react, giving options. After each question, you find out who would have said the same, and are brought to another situation. The video is below, if you'd like to play.

The women included:

• Beatrice and Hero from Much Ado About Nothing
• Titania from A Midsummer Night's Dream
• Juliet from Romeo and Juliet
• Katherine from The Taming of the Shrew
• Celia from As You Like It
• The Princess from Love Labour's Lost
• Ophelia from Hamlet
• Desdemona from Othello
• Lady Macbeth from Macbeth
• Viola and Maria from Twelfth Night

The whole process was kind of an experiment with a different medium. As far as we know, no one has ever tried something like this before. We think of it as an expansion of the Literary Inspired Webseries community. We made over 60 videos for this project. Our hope was that, if it did well, we could create more. Either we could continue on some of the storylines on this project, or we could create one for another cluster of characters. We discussed Jane Austen and Greek Gods, mostly, but the possibilities are endless.

We also each created a character of our own, who were the narrators of this story. Since we were both home for a couple days for Spring Break, we decided to do a Q&A as our characters. We asked our friends to ask us anything, and as a result, it had absolutely nothing to do with Shakespeare or literature. But it sure was fun. You can watch that video here.