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Shakespeare and Technology

Dramatizing Early Modern Technological Revolutions

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  • © 2006

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  1. Adam Max Cohen
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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. “[W]here We Lay Our Scene”: the Critical Landscape and the Elizabethan-Jacobean Technology Boom

    • Adam Max Cohen
    Pages 1-33

  3. Englishing the Globe: Navigational Technology on and Around Shakespeare’s Stages

    • Adam Max Cohen
    Pages 35-64

  4. “We Live in a Printing Age”: Shakespeare and the Print Revolution

    • Adam Max Cohen
    Pages 65-90

  5. Weapons of Fire and Shakespeare’s Dramatic Trajectory

    • Adam Max Cohen
    Pages 91-126

  6. The Clockwork Self and the Horological Revolution

    • Adam Max Cohen
    Pages 127-149

  7. Shakespeare’s Halls of Mirrors

    • Adam Max Cohen
    Pages 151-170

  8. Conclusion: Surveying Technological Confluence

    • Adam Max Cohen
    Pages 171-177

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 179-231
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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.

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'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

About the author

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.

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