Shakespeare and Twitter Make an Odd Couple

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Stan Schroeder
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Shakespeare and Twitter Make an Odd Couple
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Sometimes, people take it too far.

Or not, depending if you think that Twitter of the Shrew - a Twitter adaptation of Shakespeare's play Taming of the Shrew - is a good idea. Let's leave the business of describing the project to the creators:

"Spanning 19 Twitter accounts and presented over 12 days (one scene daily), 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."

You can find the main Twitter account for the project here, with 19 additional character accounts:

ShrewKate / Katherine Minola / http://twitter.com/ShrewKate

PetruccioV / Petruccio / http://twitter.com/PetruccioV

Grumio / Grumio / http://twitter.com/Grumio

VeronaCurtis / Curtis / http://twitter.com/VeronaCurtis

Hdasher / Haberdasher / http://twitter.com/Hdasher

Tailor4Petruc / Petruccio's Tailor / http://twitter.com/Tailor4Petruc

BiancaMinola / Bianca Minola / http://twitter.com/BiancaMinola

BaptistaMinola / Baptista Minola / http://twitter.com/BaptistaMinola

Lucenti0 / Lucentio / http://twitter.com/Lucenti0

Cambi0 / Cambio / http://twitter.com/Cambi0

Trani0 / Tranio / http://twitter.com/Trani0

Biondell0 / Biondello / http://twitter.com/Biondell0

MrVincentio / Vincentio / http://twitter.com/MrVincentio

ThePendant / The Pendant / http://twitter.com/ThePendant

Hortensio / Hortensio / http://twitter.com/Hortensio

LitioH / Litio / http://twitter.com/LitioH

PaduaWidow / The Widow of Padua / http://twitter.com/PaduaWidow

OldGremio / Gremio / http://twitter.com/OldGremio

UPadua / University of Padua / http://twitter.com/UPadua

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