Shakespeare, Technicity, Theatre

Worthen, W. B.

doi:10.1017/9781108628464

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Extended Reality Shakespeare

Mancewicz

2024

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This Element argues for the importance of extended reality as an innovative force that changes the understanding of theatre and Shakespeare. It shows how the inclusion of augmented and virtual realities in performance can reconfigure the senses of the experiencers, enabling them to engage with technology actively. Such engagements can, in turn, result in new forms of presence, embodiment, eventfulness, and interaction. In drawing on Shakespeare's dramas as source material, this Element recognises the growing practice of staging them in an extended reality mode, and their potential to advance the development of extended reality. Given Shakespeare's emphasis on metatheatre, his works can inspire the layering of environments and the experiences of transition between the environments both features that distinguish extended reality. The author's examination of selected works in this Element unveils creative convergences between Shakespeare's dramaturgy and digital technology.

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Extended Reality Shakespeare

Mancewicz

2024

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Shakespeare and Nonhuman Intelligence

Warren-Crow

2024

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The Infinite Monkey Theorem is an idea frequently encountered in mass market science books, discourse on Intelligent Design, and debates on the merits of writing produced by chatbots. According to the Theorem, an infinite number of typing monkeys will eventually generate the works of Shakespeare. Shakespeare and Nonhuman Intelligence is a metaphysical analysis of the Bard's function in the Theorem in various contexts over the past century. Beginning with early-twentieth century astrophysics and ending with twenty-first century AI, it traces the emergence of Shakespeare as the embattled figure of writing in the age of machine learning, bioinformatics, and other alleged crimes against the human organism. In an argument that pays close attention to computer programs that instantiate the Theorem, including one by biologist Richard Dawkins, and to references in publications on Intelligent Design, it argues that Shakespeare performs as an interface between the human and our Others: animal, god, machine.

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A Short History of Shakespeare in Performance

Schoch

2021

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This short history of Shakespeare in global performance-from the re-opening of London theatres upon the restoration of the monarchy in 1660 to our present multicultural day-provides a comprehensive overview of Shakespeare's theatrical afterlife and introduces categories of analysis and understanding to make that afterlife intellectually meaningful. Written for both the advanced student and the practicing scholar, this work enables readers to situate themselves historically in the broad field of Shakespeare performance studies and equips them with analytical tools and conceptual frameworks for making their own contributions to the field.

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Shakespeare, Technicity, Theatre

Abstract: All our lives we had been taught not to know thingswhich was the way of the ancient worldbut to be able to find them. That was what the tech grid gave us: infinite knowledge at our fingertips so that we didn't need to keep any of it in our heads.

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Extended Reality Shakespeare

Shakespeare and Nonhuman Intelligence

A Short History of Shakespeare in Performance

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