Shakespeare and Technology

Dramatizing Early Modern Technological Revolutions

Inbunden, Engelska, 2006

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Beskrivning

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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2006-11-17
Mått:140 x 216 x 20 mm
Vikt:404 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:231
Förlag:Palgrave USA
ISBN:9781403972064

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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.

Recensioner i media

'Cohen's book...sensitizes us to traces of a significant early modern mechanical culture in Shakespeare's plays, a culture too often and erroneously assumed to be 'rude'.' - Karen L. Edwards, Renaissance Quarterly

Innehållsförteckning

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