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Shakespeare's serial returns in complex TV / Christina Wald.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Furness Shakespeare Library (Van Pelt 628) PR3093 .W35 2020
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wald, Christina, 1976- author.
- Series:
- Reproducing Shakespeare
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Television adaptations.
- Shakespeare, William.
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Influence.
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Criticism and interpretation.
- Westworld (Television program).
- Homeland (Television program : 2011-2020).
- Succession (Television program).
- Black Earth Rising (Television program).
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.
- Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.).
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Television adaptations.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 267 pages ; 22 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2020]
- Summary:
- This book examines how Shakespeares plays resurface in current complex TV series. Its four case studies bring together The Tempest and the science fiction-Western Westworld, King Lear and the satirical dynastic drama of Succession, Hamlet and the legal thriller Black Earth Rising, as well asCoriolanus and the political thriller Homeland. The comparative readings ask what new insights the twenty-first-century remediations may grant us into Shakespeares texts and, vice versa, how Shakespearean returns help us understand topical concerns negotiated in the series, such as artificial intelligence, the safeguarding of democracy, terrorism, and postcolonial justice. This study also proposes that the dramaturgical seriality typical of complex TV allows insights into the seriality Shakespeare employed in structuring his plays. Discussing a broad spectrum of adaptational constellations and establishing key characteristics of the new adaptational aggregate of serial Shakespeare, it seeks to initiate a dialogue between Shakespeare studies, adaptation studies, and TV studies.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.
- Other Format:
- ebook version :
- ISBN:
- 9783030468507
- 303046850X
- OCLC:
- 1197814732
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