A. Cohen

Gebundenes Buch

Shakespeare and Technology

Dramatizing Early Modern Technological Revolutions

Beschreibung

By reading the plays in technological contexts, Cohen offers new insights into some of Shakespeare's key metaphors, his methods of character development and plot development, his ideas about genre, his concept of theatrical space, and his views on the theatre's role in society.

Autor

ADAM MAX COHEN is currently Assistant Professor of English at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, where he specializes in Shakespeare, early modern literature and early modern cultural studies.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan / Palgrave Macmillan US / Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-1-4039-7206-4
• 2006
• Seitenzahl: 231
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. November 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 205mm x 149mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 465g
• ISBN-13: 9781403972064
• ISBN-10: 1403972060
• Artikelnr.: 22600623

Rezensionen

'Cohen's book...sensitizes us to traces of a significant early modern mechanical culture in Shakespeare's plays, a culture too often and erroneously assumed to be 'rude'.' - Karen L. Edwards, Renaissance Quarterly