Shakespearean Archive - Experiments in New Media From the Renaissance to Postmodernity

Galey explores the entwined histories of Shakespearean texts and archival technologies over the past four centuries.

List of contents

1. Introduction: scenes from the prehistory of digitization; 2. Leaves of brass: Shakespeare and the idea of the archive; 3. The archive and the book: information architectures from Folio to variorum; 4. The counterfeit presentments of Victorian photography; 5. Inventing Shakespeare's voice: early sound transmission and recording; 6. Networks of deep impression: Shakespeare and the modern invention of information; 7. Data and the ghosts of materiality; 8. Conclusion: sites of Shakespearean memory.

About the author

Alan Galey is Associate Professor in the Faculty of Information at the University of Toronto. His research focuses on intersections between textual scholarship and digital technologies. He has published in journals such as Shakespeare Quarterly and Archival Science, and his article 'The Enkindling Reciter: E-Books in the Bibliographical Imagination', in Book History (2012), was awarded the Fredson Bowers Prize by the Society for Textual Scholarship. He is also the co-editor of Shakespeare, the Bible, and the Form of the Book: Contested Scriptures (2011).

Summary

Galey explores how Shakespeare texts became material for new media experiments. Looking historically at the archive, the book, photography, sound and information, as well as theories of information and computing, this book is of interest to scholars of the digital humanities, Shakespeare studies, and media history.

Product details

• Authors: Alan Galey, Alan (University of Toronto) Galey, Galey Alan
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.04.2018
• EAN: 9781107612983
• ISBN: 978-1-107-61298-3
• No. of pages: 347
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; English, Literature & literary studies, Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800, Shakespeare Studies & Criticism, Media, Information & Communication Industries, Publishing industry & book trade, Literary studies: plays and playwrights