What was it like to be in the audience of the Globe Theater in
1606? By demonstrating fundamental connections between audience
reaction then and the use of computers today, Renaissance scholar
Arthur Kinney explores the cultural moment of one of Shakespeare's
most popular tragedies.
Examining the cultural practices and beliefs that influenced
Shakespeare's writing of Macbeth, Kinney reconstructs how playgoers
in 1606 understood that drama when it was first presented and shows
how many congruent and often conflicting perspectives played on
their minds. Calling on hundreds of documents with which
Shakespeare might have been familiar -- books and pamphlets
circulating in England from 1600 to 1606 as well as manuscripts and
statutes -- he records a wide range of cultural practices related
to nearly every aspect of society in that day: politics, religion,
economics, medicine, family life, witchcraft, and more.
Kinney proposes a new way of reading this period's texts,
drawing us closer to the way dramatic plays such as Macbeth were
understood from early modern times to beyond today's technological
revolution. In the course of this inquiry, he seeks to determine
whether the 1623 text of Macbeth that we now have is anything like
the original 1606 performance.
Lies Like Truth 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. This provocative work
unlocks a cultural moment frozen in time and broadens our
appreciation of Shakespeare.
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