Sprint for Shakespeare

Bodleian Digital Library Systems & Services, Dr Emma Smith - public fund-raising campaign

Principal Investigator / Director: Dr Emma Smith, University of Oxford; Dr Wolfram Horstmann, Bodleian Libraries

Oxford participants: Pip Willcox

Other Participants: not specified

Project Webpage: http://shakespeare.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/

Start Date: 2 August 2012

End Date: 31 December 2012

Funder: public fund-raising campaign

Partner organizations (inside or outside Oxford): Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford

 

 

Project Description:

Sprint for Shakespeare is inspired by the work of Dr Emma Smith, Faculty of English, University of Oxford. It is a 6-month fund-raising campaign to raise funds to stabilize, photograph digitally and publish, freely online, the Bodleian First Folio of William Shakespeare's plays, Bodleian Libraries Arch. G c.7.

The Sprint for Shakespeare campaign aims to raise £20,000 through a large number of donations of all sizes. Its champions include Vanessa Redgrave, Stephen Fry, and Sir Peter Hall.