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Shakespeare / Not Shakespeare

Palgrave Macmillan
  • Combines recent scholarship in new media with the work of canonical theorists such as Derrida, Deleuze, and Haraway

  • Offers a rigorous exploration of questions of authorship, “post-textual” adaptations, and intermedia appropriations

  • Engages with a wide range of media, including novels, comics, television series, films, social media

  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Reproducing Shakespeare (RESH)

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Table of contents (17 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxi
  2. Introduction

    • Christy Desmet, Natalie Loper, Jim Casey
    Pages 1-22
  3. Celebrities and Afterlives

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 185-185
    2. YouShakespeare: Shakespearean Celebrity 2.0

      • Jennifer Holl
      Pages 203-219
  4. Accidents and Intertexts

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 239-239

About this book

This essay collection addresses the paradox that something may at once “be” and “not be” Shakespeare. This phenomenon can be a matter of perception rather than authorial intention: audiences may detect Shakespeare where the author disclaims him or have difficulty finding him where he is named. Douglas Lanier’s “Shakespearean rhizome,” which co-opts Deleuze and Guattari’s concept of artistic relations as rhizomes (a spreading, growing network that sprawls horizontally to defy hierarchies of origin and influence) is fundamental to this exploration. Essays discuss the fine line between “Shakespeare” and “not Shakespeare” through a number of critical lenses—networks and pastiches, memes and echoes, texts and paratexts, celebrities and afterlives, accidents and intertexts—and include a wide range of examples: canonical plays by Shakespeare, historical figures, celebrities, television performances and adaptations, comics, anime appropriations, science fiction novels, blockbuster films, gangster films, Shakesploitation and teen films, foreign language films, and non-Shakespearean classic films. 

Keywords

  • Shakespeare and intertextuality
  • Shakespeare and the post-textual
  • Jean Baudrillard’s hyperreality
  • Shakespearean Rhizomatics
  • Fumitoshi Oizaki’s Romeo x Juliet
  • Shakespeare and comics
  • Gérard Genette
  • shakespeare and paratext
  • Shakespeare in science fiction
  • The Rape of Lucrece
  • Shakespeare, female sexuality, and cinema
  • Shakespeare and teen movies
  • Shakespeare and memes
  • Memetics of Hamlet
  • Shakespeare and Gossip Girl
  • Shakespearean influence on modern television
  • Arrested Development
  • Sons of Anarchy
  • Hamlet and Pan's Labyrinth
  • Sleep no more

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of English, University of Georgia, Athens, USA

    Christy Desmet

  • Department of English, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, USA

    Natalie Loper

  • Department of English, Arcadia University, Glenside, USA

    Jim Casey

About the editors

Christy Desmet is Josiah Meigs Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University of Georgia.

Natalie Loper is Instructor and Assistant Director of First-Year Writing at The University of Alabama.

Jim Casey is Assistant Professor of Shakespeare, Literary Theory, and Cultural Studies at Arcadia University.


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Buying options

eBook USD 109.00
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • ISBN: 978-3-319-63300-8
  • Instant PDF download
  • Readable on all devices
  • Own it forever
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  • Tax calculation will be finalised during checkout
Softcover Book USD 139.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
Hardcover Book USD 139.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)