Michael Witmore: Shakespeare from the Waist Down

Using the analogy of a dancer to think about the ways in which poetic and theatrical effects are produced, Michael Witmore will explore the ways in which high-level theatrical effects — what literary critics call “plot” — might be visible in low-level activity at the level of the sentence. We may know a lot about the dancer (Shakespeare’s works) from the waist up, but digital analysis allows us to identify interesting moves taking place below the waist.