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torment of people transformed by illusions, there are these
lines that bespeak Shakespeare’s intuition of the transforming
powers of new media:
Is there not charms
By which the property of youth and maidhood
May be abused? Have you not read Roderigo,
Of some such thing?
In Shakespeare’s Troilus and Cressida , which is almost
completely devoted to both a psychic and social study of
communication, Shakespeare states his awareness that true
social and political navigation depend upon anticipating the
consequences of innovation:
The providence that’s in a watchful state