Digital Shakespeare in the Youtube Era: Forcing the boundaries of literature to expand the audiovisual text
Digital Shakespeare in the Youtube Era: Forcing the boundaries of literature to expand the audiovisual text

Summary/Abstract: The new possibilities that digitalising audiovisual performances as well as palaeographic records have in this high-technological globalised era are not unknown to early modern England and Shakespearean scholars and teachers. However, what are the advantages and disadvantages, if any, in this process of globalisation and the digitalisation of Shakespeare’s texts and performances? This article will try to settle some of the most urgent issues related to Shakespeare’s multiplicity of records in Internet, and more specifically, on youtube and in the Shakespeare Electronic Archive. We will also decipher some of the changes that one of the most global canonical writers in universal literature is experiencing in digital literature.

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