Lies like truth : Shakespeare, Macbeth, and the cultural moment
This text shows that the computer revolution of our time can help us revisit Shakespeare's works in their own time and thereby enhance our understanding of them. Kinney proposes a new way of reading the period's texts which helps us see how the plays were interpreted in early modern times.
Print Book, English, 2001
Wayne State University Press, Detroit (Mich.), 2001
341 p. ill. 24 cm
9780814329658, 0814329659
1014979677
Chapter 1: Macbeth and the; Cultural Moment; Chapter 2: Cultural Practices; A World of Bytes and Lexias; Theatrical Lexias; Royal Lexias; Political Lexias; Lexias of Resistance; Lexias of Justice; Economic Lexias; Social Lexias; Lexias of Lineage and Honor; Military Lexias; Lexias of Family; Lexias of Household; Medical Lexias; Lexias of Disease; Eschatological Lexias; Religious Lexias; Puritan Lexias; Catholic Lexias; Lexias of Witchcraft; Chapter 3: Shakespeare, Macbeth, and the Common Understanding; Appendix A: The Text of Macbeth; Appendix B: Gutenberg and Hypertext; Appendix C: Literary Criticism and Hypertext