Shakespeare | Cut: Rethinking Cutwork in an Age of Distraction (Oxford Wells Shakespeare Lectures)

Synopsis

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. Cuts In, To, By, From And With Shakespeare: Forms And Effects Across Four Centuries -- Cutwork: Cutting Out Plays And Putting Them On -- Cut And Run: Perceptual Cuts In Hearing, Seeing, And Remembering -- At The Cutting Edge: Interfaces Between Figure And Life -- The New Cut: Shuffling Cuts Since 1900. Bruce R. Smith. Includes Bibliographical References (pages [189]-201) And Index.