Shakespeare's serial returns in complex TV / Christina Wald.
2020
PR3093 .W35 2020
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Title
Shakespeare's serial returns in complex TV / Christina Wald.
ISBN
9783030468514 (electronic book)
3030468518 (electronic book)
9783030468507
3030468518 (electronic book)
9783030468507
Published
Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2020]
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (ix, 267 pages).
Item Number
10.1007/978-3-030-46851-4 doi
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PR3093 .W35 2020
Dewey Decimal Classification
822.3/3
791.436
791.436
Summary
This book examines how Shakespeares plays resurface in current complex TV series. Its four case studies bring together The Tempest and the science fiction-Western Westworld, King Lear and the satirical dynastic drama of Succession, Hamlet and the legal thriller Black Earth Rising, as well asCoriolanus and the political thriller Homeland. The comparative readings ask what new insights the twenty-first-century remediations may grant us into Shakespeares texts and, vice versa, how Shakespearean returns help us understand topical concerns negotiated in the series, such as artificial intelligence, the safeguarding of democracy, terrorism, and postcolonial justice. This study also proposes that the dramaturgical seriality typical of complex TV allows insights into the seriality Shakespeare employed in structuring his plays. Discussing a broad spectrum of adaptational constellations and establishing key characteristics of the new adaptational aggregate of serial Shakespeare, it seeks to initiate a dialogue between Shakespeare studies, adaptation studies, and TV studies.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Reproducing Shakespeare.
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction
2. Coriolanus and Homeland: The Return of the Soldier
3. The Tempest and Westworld: The Return of the Dead
4. King Lear and Succession: The Return of the Predecessor
5. Hamlet and Black Earth Rising: Returns to the Roots
6. Conclusion.
2. Coriolanus and Homeland: The Return of the Soldier
3. The Tempest and Westworld: The Return of the Dead
4. King Lear and Succession: The Return of the Predecessor
5. Hamlet and Black Earth Rising: Returns to the Roots
6. Conclusion.