The Shakespeare User
Subtitle: Critical and Creative Appropriations in a Networked Culture
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: Oct 06, 2017
Language: eng
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 268
ISBN-13: 9783319610146
Description: 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. -- ‡c From back cover.
Notes: Source title: The Shakespeare User: Critical and Creative Appropriations in a Networked Culture (Reproducing Shakespeare)