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What if one of literature's greatest poets was actually a zombie, writing in an Elizabethan world teeming with the undead hiding in plain sight? Inviting readers to see the sublime in the looming apocalypse, this book presents all 154 Shakespearean sonnets (with minor alterations transfigured into "zonnets") in their horrifying glory, highlighting transcendent themes of love, death, beauty and feasting on the flesh of the living. Each sonnet portrays a zombie encounter, with accompanying vignettes revealing the struggles of undead life in early modern England. Original illustrations by Anna Pagnucci bring the nightmare to life. Shakespeare will never be the same.
List of contents
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments deletev
Preface
Origin Story of the Zonnets
Shakespeare's Undead Introduction:
Life Is Better Now
1.¿Apocalyptic Beauty
2.¿Hunger
3.¿Increase
4.¿Life's Better as a Zombie
5.¿Time
6.¿Apocalyptic Living
7.¿Zombaby
8.¿Survivors
9.¿Don't Die Yet
10.¿Epitaph
11.¿The Horde
12.¿Grave Love
13.¿The Cure
14.¿Falling Apart
Index
About the author
Demitra Papadinis divides her time between New Hampshire and New York City. She is the founder and Producing Artistic Director of the New England Shakespeare Festival and a founding member of New York City's WildBard! An expert in Unrehearsed Shakespeare/First Folio Cue-Script Technique, she presents workshops and educational programs at schools, colleges, and theatres throughout the country.
