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.
Author(s): Clifford Werier, Paul Budra
Series: Routledge Literature Handbooks
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2022
Language: English
Pages: 392
City: New York
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
