Creating a Context

Computer technology has already had a profound effect on the way we communi cate and exchange ideas in academia. These changes reflect the all-encompassing shifts in communication practices in society generally and, for those of us who study the theatre, these new technologies can offer great new freedoms and new opportunities. Yet digital technology is in its infancy The technical developments which will have the greatest impact on theatre studies, such as DVD and digital broadcasting, are particularly young. My own first foray into this world of computer technology? developing for Cambridge University Press a CD-ROM text and performance archive of William Shakespeare's King Lear1?has convinced me of the need to choose positive examples to follow in this realm and, too, excited me about the possibilities offered by new techologies. In this paper I will look at these opportunities situated both in the academic world and in the professional theatre through the context of my particular experience in working on a CD-ROM project

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