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Beschreibung

Shakespeare is everywhere in contemporary media culture. Serial Shakespeare makes a unique contribution to understanding this dissemination and reassemblage by crossmapping the early modern plays with contemporary serial TV drama, creating a transhistoric conversation that is illuminating for creative readings of both.

By placing one drama, or a series of related dramas, at the center of each chapter, the book discloses unexpected lines of association to the Bard. A discussion of the use of citations in Westworld and The Wire illustrates how serial TV drama taps into but also transforms his preferred themes and concerns. A panoply of first female presidents is shown to be modelled on figures of female sovereignty from his plays. What might be called a specifically Shakespearean dramaturgy is analysed in Deadwood and The Americans. Each reading considers the Shakespearean texts again, from a different perspective, but also speaks to the way his plays come back to us from the past. At the same time, the book brings into focus the way serial TV drama keeps appropriating Shakespeare to give voice to the unfinished business of the American cultural imaginary. Both, it claims, share the sense of writing in and for a period of interim.

Shakespeare is everywhere in contemporary media culture. Serial Shakespeare makes a unique contribution to understanding this dissemination and reassemblage by crossmapping the early modern plays with contemporary serial TV drama, creating a transhistoric conversation that is illuminating for creative readings of both.

By placing one drama, or a series of related dramas, at the center of each chapter, the book discloses unexpected lines of association to the Bard. A discussion of the use of citations in Westworld and The Wire illustrates how serial TV drama taps into but also transforms his preferred themes and concerns. A panoply of first female presidents is shown to be modelled on figures of female sovereignty from his plays. What might be called a specifically Shakespearean dramaturgy is analysed in Deadwood and The Americans. Each reading considers the Shakespearean texts again, from a different perspective, but also speaks to the way his plays come back to us from the past. At the same time, the book brings into focus the way serial TV drama keeps appropriating Shakespeare to give voice to the unfinished business of the American cultural imaginary. Both, it claims, share the sense of writing in and for a period of interim.
Über den Autor
Elisabeth Bronfen is Professor at the English Department of Zurich University
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2025
Genre: Importe, Lyrik & Dramatik
Rubrik: Belletristik
Medium: Taschenbuch
ISBN-13: 9781526186171
ISBN-10: 1526186179
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Bronfen, Elisabeth
Hersteller: Manchester University Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 234 x 156 x 16 mm
Von/Mit: Elisabeth Bronfen
Erscheinungsdatum: 25.02.2025
Gewicht: 0,433 kg
Artikel-ID: 131606606

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