Shakespeare and millennial fiction / edited by Andrew James Hartley.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hartley, A. J. (Andrew James), editor.

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--In literature.

Shakespeare, William.

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Influence.

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Adaptations--History and criticism.

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.

Fiction--21st century--History and criticism.

Fiction.

Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.).

Literature.

Literature--Adaptations.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

xi, 265 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2018.

Summary:

"How do writers of contemporary fiction incorporate Shakespeare - the man, his work and his cultural legacy? This collection brings together some of the leading voices in the scholarship of Shakespearean adaptation and appropriation to examine the ways in which writers have used literary culture's most prominent historical figure to their own ends since the year 2000. The essays consider the representation of the man himself, the rethinking of his stories - often in pointed defiance of the original - and explorations of the plays radically repositioned in time and space. In the process the collection reveals which versions of Shakespeare are most current in contemporary culture and education, even as they remake them in the terms of the present, often exploiting the new notions of genre, of publishing technologies, and of political identity which have evolved so drastically since the turn of the last century"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction : 'reason not the need!' / Andrew James Hartley

Hamlet the Dane : 'tell my story' / Graham Holderness

Shakespeare found and lost / Rebecca Bushnell

Shakespeare's novel life : speech, text and dialogue in recent Shakespearean fictions / Ken Jacobsen

The school of (The) Night Circus : performing Shakespeare arcana in novel forms / Regina Buccola

'A delicate and tender prince' : Hamlet and millenial boyhood / M. Tyler Sasser

'How many daughters had Lady Macbeth?' / Jennifer Flaherty

Engaging Ophelia in early twenty-first-century young adult fiction / Emily Detmer-Goebel

Criminal adaptations : gender, genre, and Shakespearean young adult literature / Erica Hateley

A man with a map : the millennial Macbeth / Lisa Hopkins

Shakespeare and the post-millennial cancer novel / Sujata Iyengar

Posthuman Tempests in the twenty-first century / Christy Desmet

Stratford-upon-web : Shakespeare in twenty-first century fanfiction / Michelle K. Yost

The paranormal Bard : Shakespeare is/as undead / Laurie E. Osborne

The Hogarth Shakespeare series : redeeming Shakespeare's literariness / Douglas M. Lanier.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

9781107171725

1107171725

OCLC:

990970014

Publisher Number:

99975205337