Shakespeare in mass media–particularly film, video, and television–is arguably the fastest growing research agenda in Shakespeare studies. Shakespeare after Mass Media provides both students and scholars with the most comprehensive resource available on the market for studying the extraordinary afterlife of Shakespeare’s plays in a wide range of media. From marketing to electronic Shakespeares, comics to romance novels, Star Trek to Kenneth Branagh, radio and popular music to Bartlett’s Quotations, the contributors explore the contemporary cultural significance of Shakespeare with theoretical sophistication and accessible writing.
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“Praise for Unspeakable Shaxxxpeares: Brilliant...A dazzling tour-de-force: one of the most original works to have appeared recently, be it in the field of Shakespeare studies or popular culture.” —Early Modern Literary Studies
“His study is invaluable insofar as it challenges us to rethink our assumptions, whether affirmative or dismissive, about the value of attending to unspeakable Shakespeares.” —Theatre Journal
“His study is invaluable insofar as it challenges us to rethink our assumptions, whether affirmative or dismissive, about the value of attending to unspeakable Shakespeares.” —Theatre Journal
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Richard Burt is Professor of English and Film and Media Studies, University of Florida. He is the author of Unspeakable ShaXXXspeares: Queer Theory and American Kiddie Culture; Licensed by Authority: Ben Jonson and the Discourses of Censorship; and the editor of Shakespeare After Shakespeare; Shakespeare After Mass Media; and The Administration of Aesthetics. Burt also co-edited a special issue of Exemplaria on “Movie Medievalism” and held a Fulbright scholarship in Berlin, Germany from 1995–96.
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There are lots of academic studies of Shakespeare in popular culture coming out at the moment, but many are written by people who wouldn't know popular culture if it banged on their door trying to sell them cookies. The contributors to this volume are intelligent deep cultured people but listen this does not HAVE to mean you don't know how the mass market thinks, and this team does. Laurie Osborne is divine on Shakespeare in Harlequin romances and Burt is at his leg-biting best on the strange eery tameness of Taymor's *Titus* movie. This book really advances the argument about what and how Shakespeare means in America today -- buy it.
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A recent New Yorker cover cartoon by the amazing Roz Chast (November 22, 1999) shows an urban newspaper kiosk whose vendor is surrounded by a display of current magazines for sale. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Star Trek, Titus Andronicus, William Shakespeare, King Lear, Richard Burt, The Tempest, Midsummer Night's Dream, West Side Story, Love's Labour's Lost, Classics Illustrated, Busch Gardens, Two Gents, United States, Julie Taymor, African American, Jakob the Liar, John Bartlett, Orson Welles, Harlequin Books, Shakespeare's Hamlet, Oxford Univ, Two Gentlemen, Kenneth Branagh, Mardi Gras New!
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- Romeo and Juliet (Simply Shakespeare) by William Shakespeare on 51 pages
- Titus Andronicus (New Folger Library Shakespeare) by William Shakespeare on 19 pages
- The Taming of the Shrew (New Folger Library Shakespeare) by William Shakespeare on 9 pages
- The Taming Of The Shrew by William Shakespeare on 9 pages
- Antony and Cleopatra by William Shakespeare on 8 pages
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- Performing Transversally: Reimagining Shakespeare and the Critical Future by Bryan Reynolds on 7 pages
- Shakespeare After Mass Media by Prof. Richard Burt in Front Matter (1), Front Matter (2), and page 294
- Becoming Cleopatra: The Shifting Image of an Icon by Francesca T. Royster in Back Matter
- Becoming Criminal: Transversal Performance and Cultural Dissidence in Early Modern England by Bryan Reynolds on page 157
- Shakespeare and Politics by Catherine M. S. Alexander on page 21
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