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Media Relations

"Virtual Shakespeare world" could be coming to an X-Box near you

Discovery.com
Oct. 27

By Brian Jackson

Imagine a video game where -- instead of slaying goblins or foiling terrorists -- you're examining Hamlet's tragic flaw and dissecting MacBeth's soliloquy. It could soon be a reality if Indiana University scientist Edward Castronova gets his way. He plans to recreate Shakespeare's 16th-century London in a virtual computer world.

Read the entire article at: http://reports.discoverychannel.ca/servlet/an/discovery/1/20061027/1027_discovery_shakespeare/20061027?hub=DiscoveryReport

Read more about Castronova: http://www.indiana.edu/~ocmhptst/2006/10-27/story.php?id=924

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