Shakespeare and Comics - Negotiating Cultural Value

From their inception, ''low culture'' comics have intersected with the ''high culture'' of Shakespeare. This is the first book-length collection dedicated entirely to the exploration of this collision. Its chapters illuminate the ways in which different texts, time periods, politics, authors, media, approaches and forms interact. Ranging from Classic Comics to Marvel, from tebeo to manga, from independent to mainstream comics, texts explored include Y: The Last Man, Neil Gaiman and Charles Vess''s ''A Midsummer Night''s Dream'' (The Sandman #19), The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, I Am Alfonso Jones, Marvel 1602, Doom 2099, and manga adaptations of The Tempest and Macbeth, among many others.As comic books and their big-screen progeny dominate mainstream popular culture, the association of Shakespeare with comics offers creators and critics tools with which to interrogate the place of Shakespeare within the English and global literary and cultural traditions. Shakespeare and Comics argues that, at a moment when the reassessment and reimagining of literary canons has become more urgent than ever, thinking about Shakespeare through the lens of comics invites us to imagine a literary and cultural landscape in which so-called ''great works'' exist alongside and in equal conversation with marginalized writers, topics and forms.>

Product details

• Authors: Mark Th Burnett, Jim Casey, Brandon Christopher
• Assisted by: Jim Casey (Editor), Brandon Christopher (Editor), Mark Thornton Burnett (Editor of the series)
• Publisher: Arden shakespeare
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 19.09.2024
• EAN: 9781350401341
• ISBN: 978-1-350-40134-1
• No. of pages: 264
• Dimensions: 138 mm x 220 mm x 20 mm
• Series: Shakespeare and Adaptation
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / Shakespeare, PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / History & Criticism, LITERARY CRITICISM / Comics & Graphic Novels, Theatre Studies, Graphic novels: history & criticism, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Literary studies: plays & playwrights, Shakespeare Studies & Criticism, Literary studies: plays and playwrights, Literary studies: from c 2000, Literary studies: c 1400 to c 1600, Relating to Shakespeare / Shakespearean, Graphic novel / Comic book / Manga: Literary adaptations