Wednesday, September 26, 2007

Greater Shakespeare Railway Map

http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/music/rscmap1072.jpg

Cute idea, breaking down all the major Shakespearean characters on various rail lines like "lovers", "warriors", "mothers" and so on.  Bonus credit for the little icons, like having the sign for "Restaurant" over Titus. :)

Update: Some more links on the background history of the map:
http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/theatre/2007/09/all_the_stages_a_world.html

http://www.britishtheatreguide.info/news/RSCshakesmap.htm 

http://arts.guardian.co.uk/theatre/news/story/0,,2177000,00.html

The map is part of a branding campaign for the RSC and we'll soon see it on t-shirts, mugs, bags and so on.

3 comments:

AnnMCN said...

Oh, now this is too cool! You can wander all over, seeing relationships. Gertude is an intersection station for strong and difficult women and mothers. Hee!

Anonymous said...

Hmmm - this seems somewhat derivative of Simon Patterson's "The Great Bear": http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/turnerprize/history/patterson.htm

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