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“Pieces are missing” according to one of the iTunes Store reviews of Shakespeare Pro, and some of the others sound quite alarming as well.

This post has been edited by FlaSheridn: 22 March 2010 - 07:50 AM

Though it is not a complete collection (yet?), you may find "Bard's Dream" by Omnitoons an interesting take on this same idea. They've gone with the graphic novel approach, while still retaining that whole "keep Shakespeare's original text, or switch to a modern translation" thing that No Fear does. Only this time, you can watch the characters interacting with each other, so you'll have some idea who is talking to who, what facial expression they might have while saying it, that sort of thing.

Disclaimer : Not the developer, I just reviewed the app for my own site.

Very helpful review! Thanks. I like the free Shakespeare app, but your critiques were spot on. I'll have to see if they've also put blank lines between characters speaking (or have an option for that). Otherwise, the text looks too run on. Perhaps your comment about the names of the characters being offset helps that.

While I'm relatively contented with the free one, and probably won't do lots of S. reading, I may still spring for the $ one, just to reward them for a job well done.

I went ahead and bought Shakespeare Pro in spite of my misgivings; the MacWorld review is seriously deficient. The top-rated App Store review of the previous version noted that Prospero’s final speech from the Tempest is missing; this isn’t fixed in 1.1.0. The developer clearly hasn’t actually used the app: The text can only be read seriously in landscape mode, since otherwise the lines break badly, but the toolbar is mostly missing in landscape mode. The underlining for words in the glossary is so distracting that it needs to be turned off, but the glossary is disabled with them hidden. So in practice using the glossary is impractical; which is a shame, since it’s based on the excellent Shakespeare’s Words.

This post has been edited by FlaSheridn: 25 March 2010 - 07:32 AM