Cohen Shakespeare and Technology

Dramatizing Early Modern Technological Revolutions
1. Auflage 2006
ISBN: 978-1-137-12004-5
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan US
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 231 Seiten, eBook

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.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cohen, A.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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.