(Literature Handbooks)
by Clifford Werier (Editor), Paul Budra (Editor)
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.
