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Investigates how videogame controller and interface features "establish new theatrical conventions as an essential component of the user's videogame experience." Considers especially how tactile controller functions as "reflexive interface" that guides videogames, focusing on Shakespeare-related games such as Final Fantasy IX and Life is Strange: Before the Storm.

Explores instances of present and future of Shakespeare performance through virtual reality. Considers especially interface of theater and virtual reality technology mediating audience engagement.

Investigates "cognitive fit and cognitive load imposed by the Shakespeare reading interface," considering mediums to engage with Shakespeare and effects on habits and experience of reading. Employs interface theory and cognitive load theory to explore how plays make cognitive demands on readers.

Includes twenty-four essays on Shakespeare.

Adapted by Nahum Tate. Sets and costumes by Sabrina Fabi.

Produced by New York Classical Theatre (https://nyclassical.org) at Central Park, New York, NY, 1-11 July 2021; at Brooklyn Commons at MetroTech, Brooklyn, NY, 13-18 July 2021; at Carl Schurz Park, New York, NY, 20-25 July 2021; and at The Battery, 27 July-6 August 2021.

With Michael Stewart Allen (Cornwall), Amar Atkins (Edmund), Connie Castanzo (Cordelia/Fool), Grant Chapman (Oswald), Jasminn Johnson (Goneril), Cedric Lamar (Kent), John Michalski (Lear), Nick Salamone (Gloucester), Aryana Sedarati (Regan), Clay Storseth (Albany), and Linden Tailor (Edgar).

Discusses rise of global Shakespeare as both "industry and cultural practice." Considers how Shakespeare has evolved into and merged with digital world, thus making Shakespeare "digital nomad" able to "lay claim to any cultural location."

Investigates online teaching of Shakespeare in India within country's longstanding traditional framework of Shakespeare pedagogy. Assesses colonial pedagogy and post-independence pedagogy with modern digital pedagogies. English summary, online.

Discusses Fundación Shakespeare Argentina and "Shakespeare in Brazil" section of MIT Global Shakespeares as two "distinct but connected websites." Argues these websites "open up new possibilities of community building through their curatorial strategies and social outreach." Considers especially how these websites provide new possibilities for studying Latin American Shakespeares. English summary, online.

Investigates how digital campaigns in South Africa during COVID-19 pandemic employed Shakespeare in accidental or purposeful marketing initiatives. Argues such campaigns circulated "bitesize Shakespeare" and "promoted a more popular and accessible form of Shakespeare." English summary, online.

Investigates shift from "regionalized Shakespeare publication" of journal articles, institutional bulletins, and society newsletters to global Shakespeare publication. Considers especially how digital resources, including World Shakespeare Bibliography, make research not only available, but findable. English summary, online.