Shakespearean perspectives

Shakespearean spatial rules

Many games and simulations utilize modularized low-level code to move characters about in an environment. This requires extensive technical skill to translate basic high-level actions, as well as extensive time to write code, which includes very detailed instructions on what and when actions will occur across all agents. Other options exist such as mocap files; however, most are not highly dyna...

Automatic Parsing for Shakespearean Meters

Hanson and Kiparsky (1996, H&K) lay out a formal grammar for Shakespearean iambic pentameter defined by a small set of parameter settings, framed as constraints. In this paper, I investigate the possibility that different sub-genres of Shakespeare’s writing vary, categorically or on a gradient, in their settings for these parameters. To this end, I adapt the still under development Anttila et a...

Is the future biology Shakespearean or Newtonian?

"Cells do not care about mathematics" thus concluded a biologist friend after a discussion on the future of biology. And indeed, why should they care? But if we exchange the word "cell" with "rock", "Moon" or "electrons", do we have to change the sentence also? Starting from this line of thought, we review some recent developments in understanding the stochastic behavior of biological systems. ...

“Masculinity and the Body in Contemporary Shakespearean Film and Performance”

Amy Bolis, University of Minnesota The Black Male Body: Intersections of Race and Masculinity in Othello: The Remix This paper will explore the complex relationship between race and masculinity in Othello: The Remix, a hip-hop version of Othello that premiered at the Globe to Globe Festival in 2012 as America’s contribution and has since toured internationally to such prominent locations as Edi...

Bring Back Bradley: Shakespearean criticism and the problem of graphocentrism