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.

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Publisher

Palgrave Macmillan

Year

2017

ISBN

9783319633008

Topic

Letteratura

Subtopic

Critica letteraria moderna

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Acknowledgements
Contents
Editors and Contributors
List of Figures
Chapter 1 Introduction
Part I Networks and Pastiches
Chapter 2 “This is not Shakespeare!”
Chapter 3 Chasing Shakespeare: The Impurity of the “Not Quite” in Norry Niven’s From Above and Abbas Kiarostami’s Where Is My Romeo
Chapter 4 HypeRomeo & Juliet: Postmodern Adaptation and Shakespeare
Part II Memes and Echoes
Chapter 5 “I’ll Always Consider Myself Mechanical”: Cyborg Juliette and the Shakespeare Apocalypse in Hugh Howey’s Silo Saga
Chapter 6 Guest Starring Hamlet: The Proliferation of the Shakespeare Meme on American Television
Chapter 7 Romeo Unbound
Part III Texts and Paratexts
Chapter 8 Chaste Thinking, Cultural Reiterations: Shakespeare’s Lucrece and The Letter
Chapter 9 Paratextual Shakespearings: Comics’ Shakespearean Frame
Chapter 10 “Thou Hast It Now”: One-on-Ones and the Online Community of Punchdrunk’s Sleep No More
Part IV Celebrities and Afterlives
Chapter 11 Dirty Rats, Dead for a Ducat: Shakespearean Echoes (and an Accident) in Some Films of James Cagney
Chapter 12 YouShakespeare: Shakespearean Celebrity 2.0
Chapter 13 Finding Shakespeare in Baz Luhrmann’s The Great Gatsby
Part V Accidents and Intertexts
Chapter 14 Surfing with Juliet: The Shakespearean Dialectics of Disney’s Teen Beach Movie
Chapter 15 “Accidental” Erasure: Relocating Shakespeare’s Women in Philippa Gregory’s The Cousins’ War Series
Chapter 16 Dramas of Recognition: Pan’s Labyrinth and Warm Bodies as Accidental Shakespeare
Chapter 17 Shakespeare Not Shakespeare: Afterword
Index