Shakespeare and the Digital World: When scholarship meets global capitalism

Based on the book Shakespeare and the Digital world: Redefining Scholarship and Practice which tackles the thorny issues of authority and power, co-editor Christie Carson stresses the importance of continually redefining what is meant by ‘Shakespeare’ and ‘the digital’. In this paper she scrutinises her own work to illustrate the importance of speculating about the future in order to help to form, as well as inform, it.