Almost Shakespeare
In the past two decades, Othello has tried out for the basketball team, Macbeth has taken over a fast food joint and King Lear has moved to an Iowa farm--Shakespeare is everywhere in popular culture. This collection of essays addresses the use of Shakespearean narratives, themes, imagery and characterizations in non-Shakespearian cinema. The essays explore how Shakespeare and his work are manipulated within the popular media and explore topics such as racism, jealousy, misogyny and nationality. The submissions concentrate on film and television programs that are adaptations of Shakespearean plays, including My Own Private Idaho, CSI-Miami, A Thousand Acres, Prospero's Books, O, 10 Things I Hate About You, Withnail and I, Get Over It, and The West Wing. Each chapter includes notes and a list of works cited. A full bibliography completes the work; it is divided into bibliographies and filmographies, general studies and essays, derivatives based on a single play, derivatives based on several, and derivatives based on Shakespeare as a character. Instructors considering this book for use in a course may request an examination copy here.
203 pages, 2 editions
English edition · First published 2004 by McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers · ISBN 9780786481033
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2 editions
English
- Almost Shakespeare · McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers · 2014 · ISBN 9780786481033 This page
- Almost Shakespeare: Reinventing His Works for Cinema and Television · McFarland & Co · 2004 · ISBN 9780786419098
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