Deepfakes & Literature

This lesson plan allows the greatest writers of all time to read aloud from their most famous works.


Gallery of Famous Writers

This lesson plan remains a work in progress, but it will eventually show teachers and students how to create videos of famous authors reading aloud from their most famous works. Alternately, students could conjure and animate famous characters from the world of fiction, poetry, and drama. This assignment should prioritize fidelity to the original source.

death mask of John Keats (1821),
National Portrait Gallery
London, UK

“Beauty is truth, truth beauty, – that is all
Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know”
~ John Keats, Ode on a Grecian Urn (1819)