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Shakespeare’s Sonnets App
London, UK – June 28, 2012 – Touchpress and Faber, co-publishers of the ground breaking literary app The
Waste Land, proudly announce release of a new title created in partnership with Illuminations and The
Arden Shakespeare. Shakespeare’s Sonnets for iPad features specially filmed readings of every sonnet by a
star-studded cast, as well as beautifully integrating the complete Arden notes illuminating the 154 poems.
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The app features:!
• Specially filmed performances of all 154 sonnets by a stellar cast including Sir Patrick Stewart, Kim Cattrall, David Tennant, Simon Russell Beale, Dominic West, Siân Phillips, Fiona Shaw, Dame Harriet Walter, Simon Callow, Stephen Fry, and poets Don Paterson and Sir Andrew Motion.
• The complete Arden Shakespeare text of the Sonnets, including all annotations and critical
apparatus, automatically synchronised with the readings line by line.
• Extended interviews with leading scholars including Professors Katherine Duncan-Jones, James Shapiro and Henry Woudhuysen.
• Reading Shakespeare’s Sonnets: A New Commentary by Don Paterson.
• A facsimile of the 1609 quarto showing Shakespeare's Sonnets as first published.
• Readers can write their own notes and share sonnets via Twitter, Facebook and email.
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AirPlay enabled, allowing the performances to be streamed full screen to AppleTV.
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Henry Volans, head of digital at Faber: ‘We are proud of our continuing work with Touchpress and
partners at the meeting point of literature and technology. Shakespeare’s Sonnets lays down a new
marker for reading – in the widest sense – in the digital world.’
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Margaret Bartley, Publisher, The Arden Shakespeare, Bloomsbury Publishing: ’This stunning app offers
readers a dynamic and innovative way to engage with Shakespeare's sonnets. We are used to
encountering his plays in performance, now readers can enjoy and explore the sonnets in performance
alongside the authoritative Arden text and its expert commentary.‘
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Shakespeare’s Sonnets for iPad will be released worldwide on 28th June 2012 and available from the
iTunes App Store priced at £9.99 (US $13.99) itunes.com/appstore.!
The complete set of 154 video performances are also available on DVD from thesonnets.tv.
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For more information please contact:
Faber and Faber
Rachel Alexander
[email protected] +44 20 7927 3883
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Touch Press
Tom Williams
[email protected] +44 20 8749 3354
Media kit: touchpress.com/press
Notes to Editors:
Faber and Faber (faber.co.uk) is one of the last great independent publishing houses in London, with no
fewer than twelve Nobel Laureates and six Booker Prize-winners among its authors.
Touch Press (touchpress.com) is a London-based digital publisher whose UK and US founders have a
distinguished 20-year track record of interactive software development. Their launch title The Elements
for iPad has become an international publishing phenomenon selling over 280,000 copies.
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The Arden Shakespeare (ardenshakespeare.com) is the long-running and pre-eminent publisher of
editions of Shakespeare’s works for scholars and general readers.
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Illuminations (illuminationsmedia.co.uk) is an award-winning independent producer and publisher of
media about the arts and performance.
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