Book contents
- Shakespeare Survey 76
- Shakespeare Survey
- Shakespeare Survey
- Copyright page
- Editor’s Note
- Contributors
- Contents
- Illustrations
- All Early Modern Drama Is Virtual to Us
- RSC Live from Stratford-upon-Avon: Ten Things I Think I Know, or, Of Course We’re Making a Movie
- Digital Ariel: An Interview with Mark Quartley
- Staging Digital Co-Presence: Punchdrunk’s Hybrid Sleep No More (2012) And Pandemic-Informed Pedagogies
- ‘Very Tragical Mirth’: Performing A Midsummer Night’s Dream on Screen(s) during Lockdown
- ‘Uneasy Lies the Head’: Michael Almereyda’s Halloween Cymbeline
- When Is King Lear Not King Lear?
- Sim-Ulating Shakespeare: From Stage to Computer Screen
- Metre in the Middle Distance
- ‘What’s in a “Quire”?’ Vicissitudes of the Virtual in Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar and Romeo and Juliet
- ‘And Which the Jew?’: Representations Of Shylock in Meiji Japan (1868–1912)
- Hamlet, Translation and the Linguistic Conditions of Thought
- The Pietas Of Dogberry
- Taylor Mac’s Gary and Queer Failure in Titus Andronicus
- ‘I Would Cure You’: Self-Help Advice on Love in Sidney and Shakespeare
- Shakespeare in Arden: Pragmatic Markers and Parallels
- Sycorax’s Hoop
- Shakespeare Performances in England, 2022
- Peter Kirwan, Productions Outside London
- Professional Shakespeare Productions in the British Isles, January–December 2021
- The Year’s Contribution to Shakespeare Studies
- Abstracts of Articles in Shakespeare Survey 76
- Index
Staging Digital Co-Presence: Punchdrunk’s Hybrid Sleep No More (2012) And Pandemic-Informed Pedagogies
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 17 August 2023
- Shakespeare Survey 76
- Shakespeare Survey
- Shakespeare Survey
- Copyright page
- Editor’s Note
- Contributors
- Contents
- Illustrations
- All Early Modern Drama Is Virtual to Us
- RSC Live from Stratford-upon-Avon: Ten Things I Think I Know, or, Of Course We’re Making a Movie
- Digital Ariel: An Interview with Mark Quartley
- Staging Digital Co-Presence: Punchdrunk’s Hybrid Sleep No More (2012) And Pandemic-Informed Pedagogies
- ‘Very Tragical Mirth’: Performing A Midsummer Night’s Dream on Screen(s) during Lockdown
- ‘Uneasy Lies the Head’: Michael Almereyda’s Halloween Cymbeline
- When Is King Lear Not King Lear?
- Sim-Ulating Shakespeare: From Stage to Computer Screen
- Metre in the Middle Distance
- ‘What’s in a “Quire”?’ Vicissitudes of the Virtual in Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar and Romeo and Juliet
- ‘And Which the Jew?’: Representations Of Shylock in Meiji Japan (1868–1912)
- Hamlet, Translation and the Linguistic Conditions of Thought
- The Pietas Of Dogberry
- Taylor Mac’s Gary and Queer Failure in Titus Andronicus
- ‘I Would Cure You’: Self-Help Advice on Love in Sidney and Shakespeare
- Shakespeare in Arden: Pragmatic Markers and Parallels
- Sycorax’s Hoop
- Shakespeare Performances in England, 2022
- Peter Kirwan, Productions Outside London
- Professional Shakespeare Productions in the British Isles, January–December 2021
- The Year’s Contribution to Shakespeare Studies
- Abstracts of Articles in Shakespeare Survey 76
- Index
Summary
What does it mean to be present – with others, with a work of art, with oneself? This is a question that has preoccupied – and even obsessed – me for the better part of the last fifteen years. During those years, I have been exploring how to teach online, how to engage with theatre online, and how to live my own life online. All, I would suggest, are a kind of performance. They involve people coming together, in some sort of communal place, to create meaning through shared experience. But, as we all now know after several years of pandemic-affected life, what that shared experience looks and feels like can vary enormously. I need only gesture to the make-up of the 2022 International Shakespeare Conference (ISC), the occasion for which this article was originally written, to illustrate how differently we can be present with one another in a digitally connected, hybrid culture.
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- Shakespeare Survey 76Digital and Virtual Shakespeare, pp. 24 - 36Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023