Shakespeare / Not Shakespeare (eBook)

Christy Desmet is Josiah Meigs Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University of Georgia. Natalie Loper is Instructor and Assistant Director of First-Year Writing at The University of Alabama. Jim Casey is Assistant Professor of Shakespeare, Literary Theory, and Cultural Studies at Arcadia University.

1 Introduction.- 2“This is not Shakespeare!".- 3 Chasing Shakespeare: The Impurity of the “Not Quite” in Norry Niven’s From Above and Abbas Kiarostami’s Where Is My Romeo.- 4 HypeRomeo & Juliet: Postmodern Adaptation and Shakespeare.- 5 “I’ll always consider myself Mechanical”: Cyborg Juliette and the Shakespeare Apocalypse in Hugh Howey’s Silo Saga.- 6 Guest Starring Hamlet: The Proliferation of the Shakespeare Meme on American Television.- 7 Romeo Unbound.- 8  Chaste Thinking, Cultural Reiterations: Lucrece and the Violence of The Letter.-9 Paratextual Shakespearings: Comics’ Shakespearean Frame.- 10 “Thou hast it now”: One-on-Ones and the Online Community of Punchdrunk’s Sleep No More.- 11 Dirty Rats, Dead for a Ducat: Shakespearean Echoes (and an Accident) in Some Films of James Cagney.- 12 YouShakespeare: Shakespearean Celebrity 2.0.- 13 Finding Shakespeare in Baz Luhrmann’s e great gatsby.- 14 surfing with juliet: the dialectics of disney’s Teen Beach Movie.- 15 “Accidental” Erasure: Relocating Shakespeare’s Royal Women in Philippa Gregory’s The Cousins’ War Series.- 16 Scenes of Recognition: Pan’s Labyrinth and Warm Bodies as Accidental Shakespeare.