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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 authors
production
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The influence of novel technologies on authors
production
Effect Author
Identical Copies Speed, Reach
Ordering, Emphasizing
Silent reading
Technique
Layout
The Alphabet
Printing press
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The influence of novel technologies on authors
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
E-books
Offset press
Digital text
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The influence of novel media on authors writings
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The influence of novel media on authors writings
Effect Author
Flash back/forward Split screen Zoom, in/out
The daily affairs, contemporary man. In the from
of letters
Coherent chronological narrative
Film
Medium
Correspondence
Classical story telling
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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
Theater
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Effect Public
l Acteur Jean-Baptiste Faure dans le rôle
d'Hamlet
Drama in local Vernacular
Drama!
Medium
Translations
Theater
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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 in local Vernacular
Drama!
Medium
Translations
Theater
18th c. Adaptations
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Charles Louis Ambroise Thomas Opening performance
1868
Effect Public
Emphasise on characters by arias
Drama according to comtemporary tast morals
Drama in local Vernacular
Drama!
Medium
Translations
Opera 19th c
18th c. Adaptations
Theater
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No stage bounderies Location independent
Effect Public
Emphasise on characters by arias
Drama according to comtemporary tast morals
Drama in local Vernacular
Drama!
Medium
Movie
Translations
18th c. Adaptations
Opera 19th c
Theater
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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

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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

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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

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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

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Introduction of the situation
Description of the environment
Black consecutively reading path
Blue fast reading path
Development of the quest
Red informed reading path
Development of the own activities
Confrontation with others
Own conclusions
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
The Book The Play The Musical The Opera The
Comic The Film
Representation
Spin offs
Hamlet
Map of Helsingor
Picture of castle
Architecture of castles
geography
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Past royalty morals
Present day royalty morals