Ulteriori informazioni
Zusatztext A great contribution to Shakespeare scholarship, especially those chapters which present informative, inspiring, and transformative ways fandom culture could be of use to Shakespeare studies. Informationen zum Autor Andrew James Hartley is Emeritus Professor in the Department of Theatre at the University of North Carolina, Charlotte, USA. He is the co-editor of Shakespeare and Geek Culture (The Arden Shakespeare, 2020), editor of Julius Caesar: A Critical Reader (The Arden Shakespeare, 2016), author of Shakespeare and Political Theatre in Practice (2013) and The Shakespearean Dramaturg (2005). He was the editor of the Shakespeare Bulletin for a decade, resident dramaturg for Georgia Shakespeare and is an honorary fellow of the University of Central Lancashire, UK. Peter Holland holds the McMeel Family Chair in Shakespeare Studies in the Department of Film, Television and Theatre and is Associate Dean for the Arts at the University of Notre Dame. He was formerly Director of the Shakespeare Institute, Stratford-upon-Avon and is editor of Shakespeare Survey and co-general editor of the Oxford Shakespeare Topics series. Peter Holland is McMeel Family Chair in Shakespeare Studies at the University of Notre Dame, USA. Peter Holland is the McMeel Family Chair in Shakespeare Studies and the Associate Dean for the Arts at the University of Notre Dame, USA. Zusammenfassung From fantasy and sci-fi to graphic novels, from boy scouts to board games, from blockbuster films to the cult of theatre, Shakespeare is everywhere in popular culture. Where there is popular culture there are fans and nerds and geeks. The essays in this collection on Shakespeare and Geek Culture take an innovative approach to the study of Shakespeare’s cultural presences, situating his works, his image and his brand to locate and explore the nature of that geekiness that, the authors argue, is a vital but unrecognized feature of the world of those who enjoy and are obsessed by Shakespeare, whether they are scholars, film fans, theatre-goers or members of legions of other groupings in which Shakespeare plays his part.Working at the intersections of a wide range of fields – including fan studies and film analysis, cultural studies and fantasy/sci-fi theory – the authors demonstrate how the particularities of the connection between Shakespeare and geek culture generate new insights into the plays, poems and their larger cultural legacy in the 21st century. Inhaltsverzeichnis A. Geek Culture and Fiction1. Shakespeare, Tolkien and Geeking Out, by Andrew James Hartley (University of North Carolina, USA)2. “’I opened a door; that is all’: Neil Gaiman’s Decidedly Human Shakespeare in The Sandman .” by Emily Leverett (University of North Carolina, USA)3. Shakespeare Unfocused in Time: Collective Memory and Anachronism in Terry Pratchett’s Wyrd Sisters , by Kyle Pivetti (University of Norwich, UK)4. May the Bard Be with You: The Presence or Absence of Shakespeare’s Language in SciFi/Fantasy Adaptations , by Ann Martinez (Kent State University, USA)5. “Questions of Time and Tense”: Shakespeare’s Past and Science Fiction’s Future, by Andrew Tumminia (Spring Hill College, USA)B. Geek Culture and the Shakespeare Sandbox6. “Let’s kill Claudius in the church!”: Fan Fiction and Wish Fulfillment in Ryan North’s To Be or Not to Be and Romeo and/or Juliet , by Johnathan H. Pope ( Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada)7. Hiddleston-Shakespeare- Coriolanus : Rhizomatic Crossings in Fanfic, by Stephen O’Neill (Maynooth University, Ireland)8. The Bard is dead, long live the Bard: Geek Bardolatry, the Death of the Author and Kill Shakespeare, by Douglas M. Lanier (University of Newfoundland, USA)9. “There Lies the Substance”: Rediscovering Richard in Geek Culture, by Valerie M. Fazel (Arizona State University, USA) ...
