By reading the plays in technological contexts, Cohen offers new insights into some of Shakespeare's key metaphors, his methods of character development and plot development, his ideas about genre, his concept of theatrical space, and his views on the theatre's role in society.



Autorentext
ADAM MAX COHEN is currently Assistant Professor of English at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, where he specializes in Shakespeare, early modern literature and early modern cultural studies.

Inhalt
Where We Lay Our Scene: The Critical Landscape and the Elizabethan-Jacobean Technology Boom Englishing the Globe: Navigational Technologies on and around Shakespeare's Stages "We Live in a Printing Age": Shakespeare and the Print Revolution Weapons of Fire and Shakespeare's Dramatic Trajectory The Clockwork Self and the Horological Revolution Shakespeare's Halls of Mirrors Conclusion: Surveying Technological Confluence
Titel
Shakespeare and Technology
Untertitel
Dramatizing Early Modern Technological Revolutions
EAN
9781137120045
ISBN
978-1-137-12004-5
Format
E-Book (pdf)
Veröffentlichung
30.04.2016
Digitaler Kopierschutz
Wasserzeichen
Dateigrösse
5.84 MB
Anzahl Seiten
231
Jahr
2016
Untertitel
Englisch