"Digital humanities (DH) is an area of scholarly activity at the intersection of computing or digital technologies and the disciplines of the humanities."
This subfield examines the application of digital technologies to the study and interpretation of Shakespeare's works, including digital archives and computational analysis.
Shakespearean Language and Vocabulary: The vocabulary and language used in Shakespeare's plays and how it can be translated to modern language.
Shakespearean Theater History: The history of Shakespearean theater from its beginnings in the 16th century to the modern age.
Digital Text Analysis: The use of digital tools to analyze Shakespearean texts for patterns and trends.
Digital Archives and Databases: The use of digital databases and archives to store and access Shakespearean texts and other related documents.
Digital Mapping and GIS: The use of geographical information systems (GIS) to map the locations of Shakespearean theaters and related places.
Digital Visualization: The use of software and digital tools to visually represent the staging of Shakespearean plays.
Textual Analysis: The analysis of Shakespearean texts to understand their structure, themes, and motifs.
Performance and Interpretation: The study of the performances and interpretations of Shakespearean plays, including theatrical productions and adaptations.
Shakespearean Adaptation and Appropriation: The ways in which Shakespearean plays have been adapted and appropriated for modern audiences and different mediums, such as film and television.
Digital Humanities and Pedagogy: The use of digital tools and methods in teaching Shakespearean theater to students and the role of digital humanities in pedagogy.
Digital Shakespeare: Refers to the use of digital media, tools, and technologies to explore Shakespearean plays, texts, and performances. It includes digital editions, digital archives, online discussion forums, virtual performances, and other forms of digital scholarship.
Theatre and Performance Studies: Focuses on the analysis and interpretation of Shakespearean plays in performance. It includes studies of original stage productions, adaptations, and revivals of Shakespearean plays across different historical periods, cultural contexts, and media.
Textual Studies: Deals with the editing, publishing, and analysis of Shakespeare's plays in different formats, media, and languages. It includes studies of the original manuscript sources, the printed editions, the translations, and the adaptations of Shakespearean plays across time and space.
Cultural History: Explores the cultural, social, and political contexts in which Shakespeare wrote and performed his plays. It includes studies of the Elizabethan and Jacobean theater, the London society of the time, the language and rhetoric of the period, and the reception and interpretation of Shakespearean texts across different cultures and traditions.
Digital Humanities and Literary Studies: Involves the use of digital tools, methods, and theories to analyze and interpret literary texts, including Shakespearean plays. It includes projects that use computational methods, natural language processing, network analysis, and visualizations to explore literary features such as themes, motifs, characters, and genres.
Film and Media Studies: Examines the representations of Shakespearean plays and characters in different cinematic, televisual, and digital media. It includes studies of adaptations, appropriations, and translations of Shakespearean texts into different languages, genres, and cultural contexts.
Performance History: Investigates the historical reception and interpretation of Shakespeare's plays across different stages, audiences, and cultural contexts. It includes studies of the performance history of Shakespearean plays across time and space, the emergence of Shakespearean canon, and the role of Shakespearean adaptations in the formation of national and global identities.
"It includes the systematic use of digital resources in the humanities, as well as the analysis of their application."
"DH can be defined as new ways of doing scholarship that involve collaborative, transdisciplinary, and computationally engaged research, teaching, and publishing."
"It brings digital tools and methods to the study of the humanities with the recognition that the printed word is no longer the main medium for knowledge production and distribution."
"By producing and using new applications and techniques, DH makes new kinds of teaching possible."
"It studies and critiquing how these [new applications and techniques] impact cultural heritage and digital culture."
"DH is also applied in research."
"A distinctive feature of DH is its cultivation of a two-way relationship between the humanities and the digital."
"...the field both employs technology in the pursuit of humanities research."
"...subjects technology to humanistic questioning and interrogation."
"Collaborative, transdisciplinary, and computationally engaged research, teaching, and publishing."
"The printed word is no longer the main medium for knowledge production and distribution."
"DH makes new kinds of teaching possible."
"It studies and critiques how [new applications and techniques] impact cultural heritage."
"The recognition that the printed word is no longer the main medium for knowledge production and distribution."
"Collaborative, transdisciplinary, and computationally engaged research."
"It studies and critiques how [new applications and techniques] impact digital culture."
"By producing and using new applications and techniques, DH makes new kinds of teaching possible."
"Collaborative, transdisciplinary, and computationally engaged research, teaching, and publishing."
"The field both employs technology in the pursuit of humanities research and subjects technology to humanistic questioning and interrogation, often simultaneously."