![]() ![]() Considering that Shakespeare was both an extraordinary artist and savvy businessman, this seems like a scenario he could only have admired. A huge amount of time, money, intelligence, creativity, and all-around talent goes into designing and playing videogames. Which is pretty incredible, I think, given that more than one third of the world’s population plays videogames, and that the gaming industry is larger than the film and music industries combined. If Shakespeare represents the highest of high culture for many people, then videogames represent the lowest of low. Even worse, if the digital project in question is a videogame, the reactions become even more scathing. One thing I discovered through this research, however – part of which I was lucky enough to undertake at the Folger Shakespeare Library in 2017 – is that many people still have an aversion to putting the words ‘Shakespeare” and “digital” together in the same sentence. ![]()
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