{"id":782,"date":"2010-03-02T23:11:14","date_gmt":"2010-03-03T05:11:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/handyvandal.com\/?p=782"},"modified":"2010-03-22T22:44:02","modified_gmt":"2010-03-23T04:44:02","slug":"william-shakespeare-game-designer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/2010\/03\/william-shakespeare-game-designer\/","title":{"rendered":"William Shakespeare, Game Designer"},"content":{"rendered":"

What if William Shakespeare had been a game designer?
\n\"Shakespeare<\/p>\n

\nWall Street Journal: <\/strong>You mentioned Shakespeare as one of your interests during your MFA [in theater directing]. What do you think he would have been like as a game designer?<\/p>\n

Jonathan Knight:<\/strong> Shakespeare would have been on the forefront. He was an innovator and not just a great story-teller. Arguably, he\u2019s more of a medium innovator. He borrowed heavily. \u201cHamlet\u201d is a complete rip-off of a story on the prince of Denmark. Some people think he lifted it from a work that actually came between the two stories.<\/p>\n

He was such a master at harnessing the new. For him, the new medium was open air theater on the south side of the Thames. He solidified a big portion of the English language with his plays much like Dante did with Italian vernacular.<\/p>\n

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Source:
\nJames Knight interview @ The Wall Street Journal<\/a><\/p>\n

Knight is executive producer of the upcoming videogame Dante\u2019s Inferno<\/a><\/em>, developed by Visceral Games and published by Electronic Arts.]<\/p>\n

Interview by Jamin Brophy-Warren.\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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I’m reminded of Mark Twain<\/a>, also a master of harnessing the new. <\/p>\n

\"Typewriter\"Twain was fascinated, for example, by the typewriter; and he was the first author, or among the first, to submit manuscripts in typed, double-spaced format (as opposed to hand-scrawled in pencil, or worse yet pen).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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