ABSTRACT
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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|59 pages
Media and the embodied mind
part II|58 pages
Apparent designs and hidden grounds
chapter 5|16 pages
Shakespearean Interfaces and Worldmaking
part III|53 pages
Surfaces and depths
part IV|49 pages
Display, navigation, and functionality
chapter 12|14 pages
“Into a Thousand Parts Divide”
chapter 13|17 pages
Does Jonson Break the Data Model?
part V|48 pages
User experience
chapter 15|16 pages
“Make Your Best Use of This”
part VI|33 pages
Staging the interface
part VII|48 pages
Interfacing with performance