Overview
- 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
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Reproducing Shakespeare (RESH)
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
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.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
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.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Shakespeare User
Book Subtitle: Critical and Creative Appropriations in a Networked Culture
Editors: Valerie M. Fazel, Louise Geddes
Series Title: Reproducing Shakespeare
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-61015-3
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-61014-6Published: 06 October 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-86984-1Published: 17 May 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-61015-3Published: 26 September 2017
Series ISSN: 2730-9304
Series E-ISSN: 2730-9312
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 257
Number of Illustrations: 8 b/w illustrations
Topics: Early Modern/Renaissance Literature, Digital Humanities, Cultural Theory