But Shakespeare's conceptual application of a material web is more far-reaching. It is for him the very web of life, paralleling, corresponding to the web of neural pathways that receive and interpret material objects.

Author: Arthur F. Kinney

Publisher: Routledge

ISBN: 9781135876272

Category: Literary Criticism

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In this book, renowned Renaissance drama critic Arthur F. Kinney argues that Shakespeare's method of composing plays through networks of meanings can be seen as a harbinger of today's information technology. Drawing upon hypertext and cognitive theory--areas that have for some time promised to take on more importance in the sphere of Shakespeare Studies--as well as the central metaphor of the Routledge collection The Renaissance Computer, Kinney looks in detail at four objects/images in Shakespeare's plays--mirrors, maps, clocks, and books--and explores the ways in which they make up networks of meaning within single plays and across the dramatist's body of work that anticipate in some ways the networks of meaning or "information" now possible in the computer age.

AlsoseeKinney, Shakespeare's Webs, 3–5. 9. MelchiorBonnet, The Mirror, 18; Goldberg, The Mirror and Man, 135–52; Grabes, TheMutable Glass, 4–5.The quoted phrasesare MelchiorBonnet's. 10. MelchiorBonnet, TheMirror, 22.

Author: M. Hunt

Publisher: Springer

ISBN: 9780230339286

Category: Literary Criticism

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This is the first book-length analysis of Shakespeare s depiction of specula (mirrors) to reveal the literal and allegorical functions of mirrors in the playwright s art and thought. Adding a new dimension to the plays Troilus and Cressida, Julius Caesar, Macbeth, Hamlet, King Henry the Fifth, Love s Labor s Lost, A Midsummer Night s Dream, and All s Well That Ends Well, Maurice A. Hunt also references mirrors in a wide range of external sources, from the Bible to demonic practices. Looking at the concept of speculation through its multiple meanings - cognitive, philosophical, hypothetical, and provisional - this original reading suggests Shakespeare as a craftsman so prescient and careful in his art that he was able to criticize the queen and a former patron with such impunity that he could still live as a gentleman.

Following his exploration of properties viewed on stage in Shakespeare's Webs, in this new book Arthur F. Kinney continues the project by "webbing the invisible." Here he explores four objects/images in Shakespeare's plays— crowns, ...

Author: Arthur F. Kinney

Publisher: Routledge

ISBN: 9781135515119

Category: Literary Criticism

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Shakespeare and Cognition examines the essential relationship between vision, knowledge, and memory in Renaissance models of cognition as seen in Shakespeare's plays. Drawing on both Aristotle's Metaphysics and contemporary cognitive literary theory, Arthur F. Kinney explores five key objects/images in Shakespeare's plays – crowns, bells, rings, graves and ghosts – that are not actually seen (or, in the case of the latter, not meant to be seen), but are central to the imagination of both the playwright and the playgoers.

“Introduction—Shakespeare Ever After.” Posthumanist Shakespeares. Ed. Herbrechter and Ivan Callus. Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2012. 1–19. Print. Kinney, Arthur. Shakespeare's Webs: Networks of Meaning in Renaissance Drama.

Author: Sonya Freeman Loftis

Publisher: Routledge

ISBN: 9781351967457

Category: Literary Criticism

Page: 248

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"Post-Hamlet: Shakespeare in an Era of Textual Exhaustion" examines how postmodern audiences continue to reengage with Hamlet in spite of our culture’s oversaturation with this most canonical of texts. Combining adaptation theory and performance theory with examinations of avant-garde performances and other unconventional appropriations of Shakespeare’s play, Post-Hamlet examines Shakespeare’s Hamlet as a central symbol of our era’s "textual exhaustion," an era in which the reader/viewer is bombarded by text—printed, digital, and otherwise. The essays in this edited collection, divided into four sections, focus on the radical employment of Hamlet as a cultural artifact that adaptors and readers use to depart from textual "authority" in, for instance, radical English-language performance, international film and stage performance, pop-culture and multi-media appropriation, and pedagogy.

Kinney, Arthur F. (2004)Shakespeare's Webs: NetworksofMeaning inRenaissance Drama,New York: Routledge. Latour, Bruno (1993)We Have NeverBeenModern, Cambridge: Harvard University Press. Mousley, Andy (2007) ReHumanising Shakespeare: ...

Author: S. Herbrechter

Publisher: Springer

ISBN: 9781137033598

Category: Literary Criticism

Page: 261

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Shakespeare scholars and cultural theorists critically investigate the relationship between early modern culture and contemporary political and technological changes concerning the idea of the 'human.' The volume covers the tragedies King Lear and Hamlet in particular, but also provides posthumanist readings of other Shakespearean plays.

Shakespeare's Webs: Networks of Meaning in Renaissance Drama, NewYorkand London: Routledge, 2004. Klamer, Arjo, McCloskey, DonaldN. and Solow, Robert M., eds, The Consequences of Economic Rhetoric, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, ...

Author: Vivian Thomas

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

ISBN: 9781474216081

Category: Literary Criticism

Page: 416

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Shakespeare's plays are pervaded by political and economic words and concepts, not only in the histories and tragedies but also in the comedies and romances. The lexicon of political and economic language in Shakespeare does not consist merely of arcane terms whose shifting meanings require exposition, but includes an enormous number of relatively simple words which possess a structural significance in the configuration of meanings. Often operating by such means as puns, they open up a surprising number of possibilities. The dictionary reveals the conceptual nucleus of each term and explores the contexts in which it is embedded. The overlap between the political and economic dimensions of a word in Shakespeare's drama is particularly exciting as he is highly attuned to the interactions of these two spheres of human activity and their centrality in human affairs.

Kinny, Arthur, F., Shakespeare's Webs: Networks of Meaning in Renaissance Drama, New York and London: Routledge, 2004. Kingsbury, Noel, Hybrid: The History and Science of Plant Breeding, Chicago and London: University of Chicago, 2009.

Author: Vivian Thomas

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

ISBN: 9781472558589

Category: Literary Criticism

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Shakespeare lived when knowledge of plants and their uses was a given, but also at a time of unique interest in plants and gardens.His lifetime saw the beginning of scientific interest in plants, the first large-scale plant introductions from outside the country since Roman times, and the beginning of gardening as a leisure activity. Shakespeare's works show that he engaged with this new world to illuminate so many facets of his plays and poems. This dictionary offers a complete companion to Shakespeare's references to landscape, plants and gardens, including both formal and rural settings.It covers plants and flowers, gardening terms, and the activities that Shakespeare included within both cultivated and uncultivated landscapes as well as encompassing garden imagery in relation to politics, the state and personal lives. Each alphabetical entry offers an definition and overview of the term discussed in its historical context, followed by a guided tour of its use in Shakespeare's works and finally an extensive bibliography, including primary and secondary sources, books and articles.

... wills — is Arthur F. Kinney , Shakespeare and Cognition : Aristotle Legacy and Shakespearean Drama ( New York and London : Routledge , 2006 ) , which builds upon his earlier Shakespeare's Webs : Networks of Meaning in Renaissance ...

Author: Geraldo U. de Sousa

Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

ISBN: 075466886X

Category: Literary Criticism

Page: 220

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Geraldo U. de Sousa's interdisciplinary study explores the representation, perception, and function of the house, home, household, and family life in Shakespeare's great tragedies. Concentrating on King Lear, Hamlet, Othello, and Macbeth, and drawing on approaches from the fields of anthropology, art history, architecture, social and theater history, phenomenology and gender studies, this book analyzes how Shakespeare evokes domestic space to convey interiority, reflect on the habits of the mind, interrogate everyday life, and register elements of the tragic journey.

The second half of the chapter takes a media-archaeological approach to the Globe Shakespeare of the 1860s and its transformation ... 101 See Scott, Idea of the Book; Cohen, Shakespeare and Technology; and Kinney, Shakespeare's Webs.

Author: Alan Galey

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

ISBN: 9781316061268

Category: Literary Criticism

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Why is Shakespeare so often associated with information technologies and with the idea of archiving itself? Alan Galey explores this question through the entwined histories of Shakespearean texts and archival technologies over the past four centuries. In chapters dealing with the archive, the book, photography, sound, information, and data, Galey analyzes how Shakespeare became prototypical material for publishing experiments, and new media projects, as well as for theories of archiving and computing. Analyzing examples of the Shakespearean archive from the seventeenth century to today, he takes an original approach to Shakespeare and new media that will be of interest to scholars of the digital humanities, Shakespeare studies, archives, and media history. Rejecting the idea that current forms of computing are the result of technical forces beyond the scope of humanist inquiry, this book instead offers a critical prehistory of digitization read through the afterlives of Shakespeare's texts.

Shakespeare Studies 26: 187–217. Johnson, Samuel. 1968. Preface to Shakespeare. In Arthur Sherbo, ed., The Yale Edition of the Works of Samuel ... 1 of Shakespeare's Webs: Networks of Meaning in Shakespeare's Drama. New York: Routledge.

Author: Bradd Shore

Publisher: Routledge

ISBN: 9781000429787

Category: Literary Criticism

Page: 290

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This book provides a bridge between Shakespeare studies and classical social theory, opening up readings of Shakespeare to a new audience outside of literary studies and the humanities. Shakespeare has long been known as a “great thinker” and this book reads his plays through the lens of an anthropologist, revealing new connections between Shakespeare’s plays and the lives we now lead. Close readings of a selection of frequently studied plays—Hamlet, The Winter’s Tale, Romeo and Juliet, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Julius Caesar, and King Lear—engage with the texts in detail while connecting them with some of the biggest questions we all ask ourselves, about love, friendship, ritual, language, human interactions, and the world around us. The plays are examined through various social theories including performance theory, cognitive theory, semiotics, exchange theory, and structuralism. The book concludes with a consideration of how “the new astronomy” of his day and developments in optics changed the very idea of “perspective,” and shaped Shakespeare’s approach to embedding social theory in his dramatic texts. This accessible and engaging book will appeal to those approaching Shakespeare from outside literary studies but will also be valuable to literature students approaching Shakespeare for the first time, or looking for a new angle on the plays.