Reproducing Shakespeare: Media Adaptations in the Twenty-First Century

Calbi, M.

Spectral Shakespeares is an illuminating exploration of recent, experimental adaptations of Shakespeare on film, TV, and the web. Drawing on adaptation studies and media theory as well as Jacques Derrida's work, this book argues that these adaptations foreground a cluster of self-reflexive "themes" - from incorporation to reiteration, from migration to addiction, from silence to survival - that contribute to the redefinition of adaptation, and Shakespearean adaptation in particular, as an unfinished and interminable process. The "Shakespeare" that emerges from these adaptations is a fragmentary, mediatized, and heterogeneous presence, a spectral Shakespeare that leaves a mark on our contemporary mediascape.

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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2013-10-01

Format: Paperback

ISBN-13: 9781349341849

DOI: 10.1057/9781137063762

Dimensions: 216cm x140cm

Pages: 236