Sinclair, StéfanRuecker, StanGabriele, SandraPatey, MattGooding, MattVitas, ChrisBajer, Bartosz2017-07-122017-07-1220112011Sinclair, S., Ruecker, S., Gabriele, S., Patey, M., Gooding, M., Vitas, C., & Bajer, B. (2011). Meditating on a Mandala in class: Studying Shakespeare’s plays with a visual exploration tool for XML texts. Media : Culture : Pedagogy, 15(1).http://mcp.educ.ubc.ca/v15n01BornDigital_Article01_Sinclair_Ruecker_Gabriele_Patey_Gooding_Vitas_Bajerhttp://hdl.handle.net/1828/8326In this paper we describe the Mandala Browser (mandala.humviz.org) as a born-digital resource for use in the classroom. We provide example classroom exercises for studying the plays of Shakespeare, which provide on the one hand a simple means of examining speeches within a single play (our example uses Romeo and Juliet), and on the other hand a comparison between plays (e.g. all the tragedies). Finally, we provide some further context and resources for enabling what we call digital reading: a subset of text analysis oriented toward searching, browsing and reading text, without requiring more advanced knowledge of statistics and computational methods.enArticle