Shakespeare and Technology
Dramatizing Early Modern Technological Revolutions
Published on 17. November 2006
Book
Hardback
XIII, 231 pages
978-1-4039-7206-4 (ISBN)
Description
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.
Reviews / Votes
'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
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Edition
2006 ed.
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
Palgrave USA
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
With dust jacket
Illustrations
XIII, 231 p.
Dimensions
Height: 205 mm
Width: 149 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
399 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4039-7206-4 (9781403972064)
DOI
10.1007/978-1-137-12004-5
Schweitzer Classification
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Adam Max Cohen | A. Cohen
Shakespeare and Technology
Dramatizing Early Modern Technological Revolutions
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Person
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.
Content
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