"Digital Privilege"
https://www.worldshakesbib.org/entry/bbbo461/
Author:
	Bennett, Susan.
Type:
	Journal Article
Year:
	2023
Publication Information:
	Shakespeare Bulletin 41, no. 4 (2023): 509–27.
DOI:
	10.1353/shb.2023.a920570
Annotation:
	"Examines Shakespeare and performance during the most restrictive years of COVID-19, when his work was, by necessity, digitally delivered." Explores privilege through a number of lenses: digital privilege (hardware, bandwidth) to access digital performances; geographic and economic privilege to attend in-person when theatres reopened; Shakespeare's privilege in comparison to other playwrights; and funding privilege for some theatres to weather economic challenges of the pandemic. Contends that scholars need to document the wealth of online performances or risk offering shallow and non-representative information for future theatre historians. English summary, 509.
Language:
	English
Tags:
	Scholarship, Criticism, History of Criticism, Stage and Theater History, Theatrical Techniques
WSB Update:
	Summer 2025
WSB Record Number:
	bbbo461