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In distracted times like the present, Shakespeare too has been driven to distraction. Shakespeare Cut considers contemporary practices of cutting up Shakespeare in stage productions, videogames, book sculptures, and YouTube postings, while also exploring how Shakespeare's texts have been cut apart beginning in Shakespeare's own time.
List of contents
- 1: Cuts In, To, By, From, and With Shakespeare: Forms and Effects Across Four Centuries
- 2: Cutwork: Cutting Out Plays and Putting Them On
- 3: Cut and Run: Perceptual Cuts in Hearing, Seeing, and Remembering
- 4: At the Cutting Edge: Interfaces Between Figure and Life
- 5: The New Cut: Shuffling Cuts Since 1900
About the author
Bruce R. Smith, Dean's Professor of English and Professor of Theatre at the University of Southern California, is the author of seven books, including The Acoustic World of Early Modern England (1999), The Key of Green (2009), Phenomenal Shakespeare (2010), and Shakespeare and Masculinity (2000, reissued 2012). The two-volume two-million-word Cambridge Guide to the Worlds of Shakespeare, for which he served as General Editor, was published by Cambridge University Press in January 2016. A former president of the Shakespeare Association of America, he has held fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies, the British Academy, the Guggenheim Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Summary
In distracted times like the present, Shakespeare too has been driven to distraction. Shakespeare | Cut considers contemporary practices of cutting up Shakespeare in stage productions, videogames, book sculptures, and YouTube postings, while also exploring how Shakespeare's texts have been cut apart beginning in Shakespeare's own time.
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Anyone in our field who values both creativity and academic rigor has probably drawn inspiration from Bruce R. Smith ... as always, Smith doesn't contribute to subfields, he invents his own ... Smith wonders how the concept of "cutting" might provide a new way to talk about the physics, psychology, and phenomenology of Shakespearean text and performance.
