The Shakespeare User
Critical and Creative Appropriations in a Networked Culture
Editors: Fazel, Valerie M., Geddes, Louise (Eds.)
Free Preview- Contextualizes Shakespeare and his work in modern applications including digital social media platforms, gaming, and non-literary scholarship
- Provides an innovative update to Shakespearean scholarship, bringing the field into the digital age
- Unites a diverse body of authorship, from up-and-coming to established scholars
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- About this book
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This innovative collection explores uses of Shakespeare in a wide variety of 21st century contexts, including business manuals, non-literary scholarship, database aggregation, social media, gaming, and creative criticism. Essays in this volume demonstrate that users’ critical and creative uses of the dramatist’s works position contemporary issues of race, power, identity, and authority in new networks that redefine Shakespeare and reconceptualize the ways in which he is processed in both scholarly and popular culture. While The Shakespeare User contributes to the burgeoning corpus of critical works on digital and Internet Shakespeares, this volume looks beyond the study of Shakespeare artifacts to the system of use and users that constitute the Shakespeare network. This reticular understanding of Shakespeare use expands scholarly forays into non-academic practices, digital discourse communities, and creative critical works manifest via YouTube, Twitter, blogs, databases, websites, and popular fiction.
- About the authors
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Valerie M. Fazel teaches at Arizona State University. Her work on Shakespeare and digital media has been published in Borrowers and Lenders and Shakespeare (with Louise Geddes).
Louise Geddes is Assistant Professor of English at Adelphi University. She is the author of Appropriating Shakespeare: A Cultural History of Pyramus and Thisbe (2017). Her work has appeared in Shakespeare Bulletin, MaRDiE, Interdisciplinary Studies, and Shakespeare Survey.
- Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Introduction: The Shakespeare User
Pages 1-22
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South of Elsinore: Actions that a Man Might Play
Pages 23-40
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Beyond The Tempest: Language, Legitimacy, and La Frontera
Pages 41-61
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Young Turks or Corporate Clones? Cognitive Capitalism and the (Young) User in the Shakespearean Attention Economy
Pages 63-79
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Circum-Global Transmission of Value: Leveraging Henry V’s Cultural Inheritance
Pages 81-107
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- The Shakespeare User
- Book Subtitle
- Critical and Creative Appropriations in a Networked Culture
- Editors
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- Valerie M. Fazel
- Louise Geddes
- Series Title
- Reproducing Shakespeare
- Copyright
- 2017
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Copyright Holder
- The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s)
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-319-61015-3
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-319-61015-3
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-3-319-61014-6
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-3-319-86984-1
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XI, 257
- Number of Illustrations
- 8 b/w illustrations
- Topics
