Mediatic Shakespeare: The Dynamics of Orality, Script, and Print in the Plays and Poems

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Authors: Stephen Wittek
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Abstract

In a well-known passage from The Gutenberg Galaxy (1962), Marshall McLuhan famously suggested that the opening scene of King Lear registers anxiety over the transition to an increasingly print-orie...

Fields of Study & Subjects

Shakespeare Adaptation and Literary Criticism Media Communication and Education Renaissance Literature and Culture

Publication details

Journal / source
Shakespeare
Volume
22
Issue
2
Pages
490–491
Publication date
13 January 2026
Language
EN