Just Published: Professor Lauren Shohet on Shakespeare & Interface

Professor Lauren Shohet recently contributed a chapter to the newly released Routledge Handbook of Shakespeare and Interface. 

According to Routledge, "The Routledge Handbook of Shakespeare and Interface provides a ground-breaking investigation into media-specific spaces where Shakespeare is experienced. While such operations may be largely invisible to the average reader or viewer, the interface properties of books, screens, and stages profoundly mediate our cognitive engagement with Shakespeare."

Professor Shohet's chapter is called "The Heuristics of Interface: Shakespeare's Cymbeline." Here is the abstract to Professor Shohet's chapter:

"This chapter considers interfaces as liminal spaces where significantly different entities are mediated in ways that allow users to undertake some work across the gap between them, and investigates the heuristic as an essentially narrative tool for navigating that gap. The chapter explores what digitally focused understandings of interface might offer to literary and performance studies, and conversely how literary understandings of figuration explain heuristics. Suggesting that the genre of romance stages interactions across ontological divides that work as interfaces, the chapter explores interfaces in Shakespeare’s Cymbeline that bring different times, places, and cosmic realms into relation."

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