Shakespeare and Technology: Dramatizing Early Modern Technological Revolutions

✍ Scribed by Adam Max Cohen (auth.)

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US
Year: 2006
Tongue: English
Leaves: 241
Edition: 1
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xiii
“[W]here We Lay Our Scene”: the Critical Landscape and the Elizabethan-Jacobean Technology Boom....Pages 1-33
Englishing the Globe: Navigational Technology on and Around Shakespeare’s Stages....Pages 35-64
“We Live in a Printing Age”: Shakespeare and the Print Revolution....Pages 65-90
Weapons of Fire and Shakespeare’s Dramatic Trajectory....Pages 91-126
The Clockwork Self and the Horological Revolution....Pages 127-149
Shakespeare’s Halls of Mirrors....Pages 151-170
Conclusion: Surveying Technological Confluence....Pages 171-177
Back Matter....Pages 179-231

✦ Subjects

Theatre History; Poetry and Poetics; British and Irish Literature; Early Modern/Renaissance Literature

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