Gleeditions

Gleeditions.com (Glee’ dish-uns) created the world’s one and only Guided Literary E-text Editions of classic works by William Shakespeare and Mark Twain.

Gleeditions databases offer premium editions of literary works favored by higher education, featuring a line of e-texts newly annotated by scholars and a library of videos for those e-texts and more. Innovative and interactive, each Gleedition features an academically approved edition of the primary text plus:
* Color-coded, original annotations for seven literary elements
* Comprehensive yet con

cise background information
* Celebrated graphics, including maps, timelines, and art
* A search-the-text feature and hyperlinked index

Also, Gleeditions.com offers 50 formatted and searchable digital copies of Common Core texts*—stories, poems, plays, essays, and speeches by world-renowned writers from Chekov to Whitman.

07/11/2023

Gleeditions is taking a "break" to post more fiction and nonfiction e-texts and video adaptations on the site for you. Meanwhile, you're invited to enjoy the host of currently available titles. Higher-ed users, please log-in to the site via your academic library for full access to all features.

https://www.gleeditions.com

06/01/2023

For the first time, the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (announced May 8, 2023) goes to not one but two novels: Barbara Kingsolver's Demon Copperhead and Hernan Diaz's Trust. The two focus on life in America, as described here: https://www.pulitzer.org/prize-winners-by-category/219

05/05/2023

Hear Anthony Doerr, author of All the Light We Cannot See, synopsize and relay the impetus for his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. If still unread, it's one there's sufficient time to digest before the release of Netflix's upcoming four-episode miniseries (November 3, 2023).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYBK3Lsx7aI&t=15s

04/01/2023

Remarkably Shakespeare's date of birth, celebrated April 23rd, coincides with his date of death. Gleeditions commemorates his lifetime with online access to a collection of acclaimed performances (speeches and films) of his plays. If your campus library provides access to Gleeditions Academic, view them through it to see the concise video summaries too. https://www.gleeditions.com/video_index.asp

03/06/2023

The 17th-century writer Savinien de Cyrano de Bergerac was born on this day in 1619. Two centuries later French dramatist Edmond Rostand popularized Cyrano’s life in his famous play Cyrano de Bergerac. The work appears on Gleeditions in multiple formats, including an annotated e-text and video adaptations. https://www.gleeditions.com/video_index.asp

02/02/2023

This month we honor Black History Month and playwright August Wilson with his Pittsburgh Cycle (also known as the Century Cycle), a play series that details Black life in 20th-century America. You can find both performances of the plays and Wilson in conversation at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts on our website.

https://www.gleeditions.com/video_index.asp?vid=1864

12/09/2022

A new-old genre has come into its own in 2022—spoken-word poetry. This fall saw the first international World Poetry Slam Championship in Brussels. Poets from 37 countries recited lyrics on personal and social concerns today. Gleeditions brings you a West African contestant, who recites his lyrics in French (with English subtitles). https://www.gleeditions.com/video_index.asp

12/01/2022

Along with the titles of last month's 1922 National Book Award Winners, find summaries for four of the winners and the fifth one mentioned here.

https://www.kirkusreviews.com/news-and-features/articles/winners-of-the-2022-national-book-awards-revealed/

11/18/2022

Reviewers characterize Netflix's new adaptation of the WW1 novel All Quiet on the Western Front (1929, by Erich Maria Remarque) as an antiwar drama. Watch the trailer below to see why.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDac2vsqa7k

11/10/2022

This election week, the American political divide prompts a look at The Founders' Speech to a Nation in Crisis, an imaginative, instructive read by Steven Rabb. Roughly 150 pages, the patchwork quilt of a narrative addresses Americans today. Get an overview and taste of it from the Goodreads review:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/55745629-the-founders-speech-to-a-nation-in-crisis

10/27/2022

Previews begin Friday, October 28, 2022, for Broadway's debut of a musical spinoff on Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. The show's title, & Juliet, clues us in to the focus. See a clip here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OdSSfa1Oz5w

10/21/2022

On October 17, Shehan Karunatilaka won the Booker Prize 2022 for The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida, about an ace photographer and the Sri Lankan civil war. Killed, the photographer, Maali, returns from the afterlife to retrieve and expose some shockingly revealing photographs. He has seven moons (one week) to do so. For more details, read this review.

https://www.litromagazine.com/usa/2022/09/book-review-the-seven-moons-of-maali-almeida/

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