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Author
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Date published
2013
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Publisher
New York, New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.
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Subject
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 Adaptations History and criticism.
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
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Accession number
8341071
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Class
Reading Room - 72.86/CAL
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ISBN
9780230338753
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Language
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Physical description
xii, 236 pages ; 22 cm.
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Spectral Shakespeares is an illuminating exploration of recent, experimental adaptations of Shakespeare on film, TV, and the web. Drawing on adaptation studies and media theory as well as Jacques Derrida's work, this book argues that these adaptations foreground a cluster of self-reflexive "themes" - from incorporation to reiteration, from migration to addiction, from silence to survival - that contribute to the redefinition of adaptation, and Shakespearean adaptation in particular, as an unfinished and interminable process. The "Shakespeare" that emerges from these adaptations is a fragmentary, mediatized, and heterogeneous presence, a spectral Shakespeare that leaves a mark on our contemporary mediascape.