Mediatic Shakespeare : The Dynamics of Orality, Script and Print in the Plays and Poems / Richard Cavell.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cavell, Richard, 1949- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Criticism and interpretation.

Shakespeare, William.

Mass media and literature.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (304 pages).

Place of Publication:

London : University of Toronto Press, 2025.

Summary:

"Shakespeare produced his works during a media shift that was unmatched – until our own. Mediatic Shakespeare by media theorist Richard Cavell examines how Shakespeare’s writing engaged with the cultural upheaval of an era shifting rapidly from spoken traditions towards print materials. Cavell argues that print was an active cultural force that was in the process of reshaping Shakespeare’s world and work. Nostalgic for oral communality, Shakespeare engaged guardedly with print, producing a media dynamic that resonates throughout his work. Drawing on media theorists from Marshall McLuhan to Friedrich Kittler and Bernhard Siegert, Cavell traces Shakespeare’s engagement with the effects of a media ecology in which knowing and being were aggressively in flux. Structured across four chapters, Mediatic Shakespeare explores Shakespeare’s media ecology, the unsettling interfaces of orality and literacy, the breakdown of the sensus communis, and the implications for his work of the printing involution."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

“Offices ... of mediation”: Shakespeare’s Media Ecology

“Speech ... well penned”: Interfaces of Orality and Literacy

“Th’untuned and jarring senses”: The Breakdown of the Sensus Communis

“A copie out of mine”: The Printing Involution.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-4875-6538-0

1-4875-6537-2

9781487565374

OCLC:

1517947429