Shakespeare and Millennial Fiction

This book analyses the ways contemporary fiction writers draw on Shakespeare - the man, his work and his cultural legacy.

List of contents

Introduction: 'reason not the need!' Andrew James Hartley; 1. Hamlet the Dane: 'tell my story' Graham Holderness; 2. Shakespeare found and lost Rebecca Bushnell; 3. Shakespeare's novel life: speech, text and dialogue in recent Shakespearean fictions Ken Jacobsen; 4. The school of (The) Night Circus: performing Shakespeare arcana in novel forms Regina Buccola; 5. 'A delicate and tender prince': Hamlet and millenial boyhood M. Tyler Sasser; 6. 'How many daughters had Lady Macbeth?' Jennifer Flaherty; 7. Engaging Ophelia in early twenty-first-century young adult fiction Emily Detmer-Goebel; 8. Criminal adaptations: gender, genre, and Shakespearean young adult literature Erica Hateley; 9. A man with a map: the millennial Macbeth Lisa Hopkins; 10. Shakespeare and the post-millennial cancer novel Sujata Iyengar; 11. Posthuman Tempests in the twenty-first century Christy Desmet; 12. Stratford-upon-web: Shakespeare in twenty-first century fanfiction Michelle K. Yost; 13. The paranormal Bard: Shakespeare is/as undead Laurie E. Osborne; 14. The Hogarth Shakespeare series: redeeming Shakespeare's literariness Douglas M. Lanier.

Summary

This book is a scholarly examination of the way that fiction produced since the year 2000 incorporates the work and legacy of Shakespeare. Some of these novels and short stories revisit the plots of Shakespeare's plays, retelling their stories or otherwise adapting the material to explore contemporary concerns and issues.

Product details

• Authors: Andrew James (University of North Carolin Hartley
• Assisted by: Andrew James Hartley (Editor), Hartley Andrew James (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.06.2022
• EAN: 9781316622902
• ISBN: 978-1-316-62290-2
• No. of pages: 277
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; English, 21st Century, 21st century, c 2000 to c 2100, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800, Shakespeare Studies & Criticism, Literary studies: plays and playwrights, Literary studies: from c 2000, Relating to Shakespeare / Shakespearean