Overview

The Routledge Handbook of Shakespeare and Interface provides a ground-breaking investigation into media-specific spaces where Shakespeare is experienced. While such operations may be largely invisible to the average reader or viewer, the interface properties of books, screens, and stages profoundly mediate our cognitive engagement with Shakespeare. This volume considers contemporary debates and questions including how mobile devices mediate the experience of Shakespeare; the impact of rapidly evolving virtual reality technologies and the interface architectures which condition Shakespearean plays; and how design elements of hypertext, menus, and screen navigation operate within internet Shakespeare spaces. Charting new frontiers, this diverse collection delivers fresh insight into human–computer interaction and user-experience theory, cognitive ecology, and critical approaches such as historical phenomenology. This volume also highlights the application of media and interface design theory to questions related to the medium of the play and its crucial interface with the body and mind.

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Author:   Clifford Werier ,  Paul Budra
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.890kg
ISBN:  

9780367420888

ISBN 10:   0367420880
Pages:   376
Publication Date:   25 August 2022
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  General/trade ,  Professional & Vocational ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

"Introduction Clifford Werier and Paul Budra Part 1 Media and the embodied mind 1 Reading Shakespeare: Interface and Cognitive Load Clifford Werier 2 Shakespeare and Virtual Reality Rebecca Bushnell and Michael Ullyot 3 All the Game Is a Stage: The Controller and Interface in Shakespearean Videogames Mark Kaethler 4 Voice as Interface Bruce Smith Part 2 Apparent designs and hidden grounds 5 Shakespearean Interfaces and Worldmaking: Buried Narratives, Hidden Grounds, and the Culture of Adaptive Practice Daniel Fischlin 6 What Are Interfaces For, Really? Gabriel Egan 7 Interface Design and Editorial Theory Gary Taylor 8 Abstraction as Shakespearean Interface Jonathan Lamb and Suzanne Tanner Part 3 Surfaces and depths 9 The Hamlet First Quarto (1603) and the Play of Typography Erika Boeckeler 10 Desiring Bodies, Divine Violence and Typographic Interfaces in Champ Fleury and Venus and Adonis Simon Ryle 11 ""If you can command these elements"": TEI Markup as Shakespearean Interface Sarah Connell Part 4 Display, navigation, and functionality 12 ""Into a thousand parts divide"": The Pursuit of Precision in Shakespeare’s Interfaces Rebecca Niles 13 Does Jonson Break the Data Model? Interrelated Data Models for Early Modern English Drama Meaghan Brown 14 Browse as Interface in Shakespeare’s Texts and The World Shakespeare Bibliography Online Heidi Craig and Laura Estill Part 5 User experience 15 ""Make Your Best Use of This"": A Case Study in User Experience Design for a Shakespeare Interface Kurt Daw 16 Using Data and Design to Bring the New Variorum Shakespeare Online Anne Burdick, Laura Mandell, Bryan Tarpley, and Katayoun Torabi 17 Mediating the Shakespeare User’s Digital Experience Eric Johnson and Stacey Redick Part 6 Staging the interface 18 Access Points: Stage, Space, and/as Interface in the Early Modern Playhouses Laurie Johnson 19 The Heuristics of Interface: Shakespeare’s Cymbeline Lauren Shohet 20 Shakespeare Through the Bare Thrust Stage Interface Shoichiro Kawai Part 7 Interfacing with performance 21 Shakespeare’s Walking Story: Site-specific Theater in a Covid World Gretchen Minton 22 Interfacing Shakespeare Onscreen Alexa Joubin 23 Front to Front: Enactment as Interface Mary Hartman 24 Zoom Shakespeare Paul Budra"

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Clifford Werier is Professor of English at Mount Royal University, Canada. His recent publications investigate time across media in Shakespearean jokes and the application of meme theory to the spread of contagious ideas in Coriolanus. He is the co-editor of Shakespeare and Consciousness (2016) and is the interface team leader on the Linked Early Modern Drama Online project. Paul Budra is Professor of English at Simon Fraser University, Canada. He has published six books and numerous articles on early modern drama and contemporary popular culture. He is the director of SFU Publications and a past president of the Pacific Northwest Renaissance Society.

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