The Routledge Handbook of Shakespeare and Interface

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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. Cover Half Title Series Page Title Page Copyright Page Dedication Table of Contents List of figures List of contributors Acknowledgments Introduction PART I: Media and the embodied mind 1. Reading Shakespeare: Interface and Cognitive Load 2. Shakespeare and Virtual Reality 3. All the Game Is a Stage: The Controller and Interface in Shakespearean Videogames 4. Voice as interface PART II: Apparent designs and hidden grounds 5. Shakespearean Interfaces and Worldmaking: Buried Narratives, Hidden Grounds, and the Culture of Adaptive Practice 6. What are interfaces for, really? 7. Interface Design and Editorial Theory 8. Abstraction as Shakespearean Interface PART III: Surfaces and depths 9. The Hamlet First Quarto (1603) and the Play of Typography 10. Desiring bodies, divine violence and typographic interfaces in Champ Fleury and Venus and Adonis 11. “If you can command these elements”: TEI markup as Shakespearean interface PART IV: Display, navigation, and functionality 12. “Into a Thousand Parts Divide”: The Pursuit of Precision in Shakespeare’s Interfaces 13. Does Jonson Break the Data Model?: Interrelated Data Models for Early Modern English Drama 14. Browse as Interface in Shakespeare’s Texts and the World Shakespeare Bibliography Online PART V: User experience 15. “Make Your Best Use of This”: User-Experience Design and the Shakespeare Interface 16. Using Data and Design to Bring the New Variorum Shakespeare Online 17. Mediating the Shakespeare User’s Digital Experience PART VI: Staging the interface 18. Access Points: Stage, Space, and/as Interface in the Early Modern Playhouses 19. The Heuristics of Interface: Shakespeare’s Cymbeline 20. Shakespeare through the bare thrust stage interface PART VII: Interfacing with performance 21. Shakespeare’s Walking Story: site-specific theater in a Covid world 22. Interfacing Shakespeare Onscreen 23. Front to Front: Enactment as Interface 24. Zoom Shakespeare Index