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Shakespeare and Millennial Fiction
About this book
How do writers of contemporary fiction incorporate Shakespeare - the man, his work and his cultural legacy? This collection brings together some of the leading voices in the scholarship of Shakespearean adaptation and appropriation to examine the ways in which writers have used literary culture's most prominent historical figure to their own ends since the year 2000. The essays consider the representation of the man himself, the rethinking of his stories - often in pointed defiance of the original - and explorations of the plays radically repositioned in time and space. In the process the collection reveals which versions of Shakespeare are most current in contemporary culture and education, even as they remake them in the terms of the present, often exploiting the new notions of genre, of publishing technologies, and of political identity which have evolved so drastically since the turn of the last century.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half-title
- Title page
- Copyright information
- Table of contents
- List of Contributors
- Introduction: ‘‘Reason Not the Need!’’
- Chapter 1 Hamlet the Dane: ‘‘Tell My Story’’
- Chapter 2 Shakespeare Found and Lost
- Chapter 3 Shakespeare’s Novel Life: Speech, Text and Dialogue in Recent Shakespearean Fictions
- Chapter 4 The School of (The) Night Circus: Performing Shakespeare Arcana in Novel Forms
- Chapter 5 ‘‘A Delicate and Tender Prince’’: Hamlet and Millennial Boyhood
- Chapter 6 ‘‘How Many Daughters Had Lady Macbeth?’’
- Chapter 7 Engaging Ophelia in Early Twenty-First Century Young Adult Fiction
- Chapter 8 Criminal Adaptations: Gender, Genre, and Shakespearean Young Adult Literature
- Chapter 9 A Man with a Map: The Millennial Macbeth
- Chapter 10 Shakespeare and the Post-Millennial Cancer Novel
- Chapter 11 Posthuman Tempests in the Twenty-First Century
- Chapter 12 Stratford-Upon-Web: Shakespeare in Twenty-First-Century Fanfiction
- Chapter 13 The Paranormal Bard: Shakespeare Is/As Undead
- Chapter 14 The Hogarth Shakespeare Series: Redeeming Shakespeare’s Literariness
- List of Referenced Novels
- Index