Shakespeare and Game of Thrones

ISBN-13: 9780367483920 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 128 str.

Jeffrey Wilson

Opis

In this book, Jeffrey R. Wilson shows how that connection was mediated by Shakespeare, and how a knowledge of the Shakespearean context enriches our understanding of the literary elements of Game of Thrones.

Spis treści

Introduction  1. The Tudor Myth  2. Martin’s Shakespeare  3. The Shakespearean Slingshot  4. Composition History and Co(rporate)-Authorship  5. From True Tragedy to Historical Fantasy  6. Comical-Tragical-Historical-Pastoral: Mixed Genre  7. Narrative Relief: From Comedy to Nudity  8. Spectacle and Success from the Medieval Church Service to CGI  9. Game of Thrones as Shakespearean Performance: Interviews with the Actors  10. External Predictability, Internal Unpredictability  11. Eddard as Gloucester: De Casibus Virorum Illustrum  12. Wars of Roses: A Literary Trope in Social Life  13. The Stigmatized Protagonist: The Tragic Model and the Heroic Model  14. Girl Power: Mimetic Feminism and Rhetorical Misogyny  15. Generic Bias: Gender, Race, Criticism  16. The Bloody Hand: Intertextual Metatheater  17. The Targaryen Myth  18. How George R.R. Martin Changed the Ending of Game Of Thrones  19. Fandom as IKEA Effect

O autorze

Jeffrey R. Wilson is a faculty member in the Writing Program at Harvard University, USA, where he teaches the Why Shakespeare? section of the university’s first-year writing course. Focused on intersections of Renaissance literature and modern sociology, his work has appeared in the academic journals Modern Language Quarterly, Genre, and College Literature, and public venues like National Public Radio, Salon, and MLA’s Profession.