{"id":1578,"date":"2009-07-24T20:06:52","date_gmt":"2009-07-25T01:06:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/?p=1578"},"modified":"2017-08-19T13:03:43","modified_gmt":"2017-08-19T18:03:43","slug":"question-of-the-week-55","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/archives\/1578","title":{"rendered":"Question of the Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apple has chosen, as App Store Pick of the Week, an app called Shakespeare that was put together by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.playshakespeare.com\/\" target=_blank>PlayShakespeare.com<\/a> and Readdle.  It&#8217;s a great app.  I have it on my iPhone, and it&#8217;s really useful for looking up a reference or browsing through the plays.  It doesn&#8217;t do anything fancy; it&#8217;s just an easy way to navigate the text of the Complete Works.  <\/p>\n<p>When it got the Apple nod, I returned to the store to read the description of the app, which I was surprised to find now includes a warning that it may not be suitable for children under 12:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n<strong>Rated 12+ for the following:<\/strong><br \/>\nInfrequent\/Mild Profanity or Crude Humor<br \/>\nInfrequent\/Mild Alcohol, Tobacco, or Drug Use or Reference<br \/>\nInfrequent\/Mild Sexual Content or Nudity<br \/>\nInfrequent\/Mild Horror\/Fear Themes<br \/>\nFrequent\/Intense Realistic Violence<br \/>\nInfrequent\/Mild Mature\/Suggestive Themes<br \/>\nFrequent\/Intense Cartoon or Fantasy Violence\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Parents, you&#8217;ve been warned.<\/p>\n<p>I put the question to my readers: <em>What might we be afraid our younger children will do after reading Shakespeare on their iPhones?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Poison their sisters?  Usurp the crown?  Dress like a boy and flee into the forest?<\/p>\n<p>Let me know what you think.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple has chosen, as App Store Pick of the Week, an app called Shakespeare that was put together by PlayShakespeare.com and Readdle. It&#8217;s a great app. I have it on my iPhone, and it&#8217;s really useful for looking up a reference or browsing through the plays. It doesn&#8217;t do anything fancy; it&#8217;s just an easy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,57,113,12,41,58,24,3,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apple","category-as-you-like-it","category-histories","category-humor","category-information-literacy","category-king-lear","category-question","category-shakespeare","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1578"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1578\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1849,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1578\/revisions\/1849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}