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"Shakespeare and the Cut" plenary
Bruce Smith, "Rethinking the Cut in an Age of Distraction
- fetishizing cuts today
- omissions only became 'cuts' in 1670s; 18c 'cut' becomes established term, perhaps because of editions
- film gave the term new currency
- need a phenomenology of cutting: perception, materials/technology, aesthetics
- Smock Alley promptbooks, late 17c, Dublin; G. Blakemore Evans argument about them
- cutwork in construction of Shx mss
- "seamed" -- Cavendish uses this term as a metaphor for writing plays
- importance of cutwork in costumes
- Burroughs -- Shakespeare cut-ups; Los Angeles Museum of Art (most cuts have already been processed/typed up)
Thomas Cartelli
- difference-making engine of cutting
- not adaptation but displacement; projective, not retrospective
- "On Algorithmic Theatre"