‘What are the new possibilities of a
work in the digital age?’
August Hans den Boef & Joost Kircz
Create-it Hogeschool van Amsterdam
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Alternately reading
several books
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Alternately reading
several books
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The influence of novel technologies
on author’s production
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The influence of novel technologies on author’s production
Effect
Author
Identical Copies
Speed, Reach
Ordering, Emphasizing
Silent reading
Technique
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The influence of novel technologies on author’s production
Effect
Author
Integration with sources
and releated works in networks
Editing for various usage
Integration of text, sound,
Image, film, data.
Integrating text & images
Technique
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The influence of novel media on
author’s writings
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The influence of novel media on author’s writings
Effect
Author
Flash back/forward
Split screen
Zoom, in/out
The daily affairs,
contemporary man.
In the from of letters
Coherent chronological
narrative
Medium
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The possibilities of transformations
by novel media for the public
consumption:
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Effect
Public
Hamlet by the actor
Thomas Betterton in 1661.
Drama!
Medium
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l‘ Acteur JeanBaptiste Faure
dans le rôle d'Hamlet
Effect
Public
Drama!
Medium
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David Garrick : "I had sworn I
would not leave the stage till I
had rescued that noble play
from all the rubbish of the
fifth act. I have brought it forth
without the grave-digger's trick,
Osrick, & the fencing match
(Letter to Sir William Young,
10 January 1773)
Effect
Public
Drama according to
Comtemporary tast & morals
Drama!
Medium
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Charles Louis Ambroise Thomas
Opening performance 1868
Effect
Public
Emphasise on characters by aria’s
Drama according to
comtemporary tast & morals
Drama!
Medium
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No stage bounderies
Location independent
Effect
Public
Emphasise on
characters by aria’s
Drama according to
comtemporary tast & morals
Drama!
Medium
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Readers Paths and Hypertextual modules
Introduction of the situation
Developement of the quest
Description of the environment
Development of the own acitities
Own conclusions
Confrontation with others
How will it go on?
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Introduction of the situation
F- Once upon a time we had a prince
S- On which sources is Hamlet based?
E- Parent-childern relations were different in the past
Developement of the quest
Description of the environment
Development of the own acitities
Own conclusions
Confrontation with others
How will it go on?
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Introduction of the situation
F- Once upon a time we had a prince
S- On which sources is Hamlet based?
E- Parent-childern relations were different in the past
Development of the quest
F- Hamlet tries to revenge the murder of his father
S- Try and find previous potential sources and influences
E- Let us compare royalty now and in Denmark in 16th c.
Description of the environment
Development of the own activities
Own conclusions
Confrontation with others
How will it go on?
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Introduction of the situation
F- Once upon a time we had a prince
S- On which sources is Hamlet based?
E- Parent-childern relations were different in the past
Development of the quest
F- Hamlet tries to revenge the murder of his father
S- Try and find previous potential sources and influences
E- Let us compare royalty now and in Denmark in 16th c.
Description of the environment
F- His mother Gertrud married the murderer
S- Manuscripts are scattered around the world
E- An outline of various royal cultures
Development of the own activities
Own conclusions
Confrontation with others
How will it go on?
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Introduction of the situation
F- Once upon a time we had a prince
S- On which sources is Hamlet based?
E- Parent-childern relations were different in the past
Development of the quest
F- Hamlet tries to revenge the murder of his father
S- Try and find previous potential sources and influences
E- Let us compare royalty now and in Denmark in 16th c.
Description of the environment
F- His mother Gertrud married the murderer
S- Manuscripts are scattered around the world
E- An outline of various royal cultures
Development of the own activities
F-Hamlet writes a play to provoke the murderer
S- In libraries we find Oresteia and Gesta Danorum
E- Prince Charles is angry on his mother too
Own conclusions
Confrontation with others
How will it go on?
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Introduction of the situation
F- Once upon a time we had a prince
S- On which sources is Hamlet based?
E- Parent-childern relations were different in the past
Development of the quest
F- Hamlet tries to revenge the murder of his father
S- Try and find previous potential sources and influences
E- Let us compare royalty now and in Denmark in 16th c.
Description of the environment
F- His mother Gertrud married the murderer
S- Manuscripts are scattered around the world
E- An outline of various royal cultures
Development of the own activities
F-Hamlet writes a play to provoke the murderer
S- In libraries we find Oresteia and Gesta Danorum
E- Prince Charles is angry on his mother too
Own conclusions
F- Hamlet realises his mother is an accomplice
S- Shakespeare is clearly inspired by the sources mentioned
E- Some parent children emotions are historically determined
Confrontation with others
How will it go on?
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Introduction of the situation
F- Once upon a time we had a prince
S- On which sources is Hamlet based?
E- Parent-childern relations were different in the past
Development of the quest
F- Hamlet tries to revenge the murder of his father
S- Try and find previous potential sources and influences
E- Let us compare royalty now and in Denmark in 16th c.
Description of the environment
F- His mother Gertrud married the murderer
S- Manuscripts are scattered around the world
E- An outline of various royal cultures
Development of the own activities
F-Hamlet writes a play to provoke the murderer
S- In libraries we find Oresteia and Gesta Danorum
E- Prince Charles is angry on his mother too
Own conclusions
F- Hamlet realises his mother is an accomplice
S- Shakespeare is clearly inspired by the sources mentioned
E- Some parent children emotions are historically determined
Confrontation with others
F- Gertrud tried to comfort her son
S- Other claim the only source was:16th-c. François de Belleforeston
E- The RC Church claims eternal family values
How will it go on?
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Introduction of the situation
F- Once upon a time we had a prince
S- On which sources is Hamlet based?
E- Parent-childern relations were different in the past
Development of the quest
F- Hamlet tries to revenge the murder of his father
S- Try and find previous potential sources and influences
E- Let us compare royalty now and in Denmark in 16th c.
Description of the environment
F- His mother Gertrud married the murderer
S- Manuscripts are scattered around the world
E- An outline of various royal cultures
Development of the own activities
F-Hamlet writes a play to provoke the murderer
S- In libraries we find Oresteia and Gesta Danorum
E- Prince Charles is angry on his mother too
Own conclusions
F- Hamlet realises his mother is an accomplice
S- Shakespeare is clearly inspired by the sources mentioned
E- Some parent children emotions are historically determined
Confrontation with others
F- Gertrud tried to comfort her son
S- Other claim the only source was:16th-c. François de Belleforeston
E – The RC Church claims eternal family values
How will it go on?
F- Hamlet dies in a fencing match with the counselor Polonius
S- A further intertexual analysis is required
E- We will further look at non-protestant royalty
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Introduction
of the
situation
Black consecutively reading path Description of
the environment
Blue fast reading path
Development
of the quest
Red informed reading path
Development of
the own activities
Own conclusions
Confrontation with
others
How will it go on
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Study on metaphors
Royalty in pains (Oedipus )
The ghosts as moral
Same plot (Orestes )
Same style (King Lear)
Tom Stoppard
Rosencranz and Guildenstern
are Dead
John Updike
Gurtrud and Claudius
Spin offs
geography
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Representation
Hamlet
Picture of castle
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The Play
The Musical
The Opera
The Comic
The Film
Architecture of castles
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Past royalty morals
Present day royalty morals
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