Shakespeare and Digital Performance in Practice

Erin Sullivan is Reader in Shakespeare at the Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham, UK. She is co-editor of Lockdown Shakespeare: New Evolutions in Performance and Adaptation (2022) and author of Beyond Melancholy: Sadness and Selfhood in Renaissance England (2016). Her research focuses on the emotional force of Shakespeare’s works, both in his own time and today.

• 1. Introduction.- 2. Being There.- 3. The Broadcast Stage.- 4. Mediated Performance.- 5. Born-Digital Theatre.- 6. Conclusion.- 7. In Practice - Interviews with Two Practitioners.