Shakespeare's Hamlet in an Era of Textual Exhaustion

ISBN-13: 9781138291270 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 248 str.

Sonya Freeman Loftis; Allison Kellar; Lisa Ulevich

Opis

"Post-Hamlet: Shakespeare in an Era of Textual Exhaustion" examines how postmodern audiences continue to reengage with Hamlet in spite of our culture’s oversaturation with this most canonical of texts. Combining adaptation theory and performance theory with examinations of avant-garde performances and other unconventional appropriations of Shakespeare’s play, Post-Hamlet examines Shakespeare’s Hamlet as a central symbol of our era’s "textual exhaustion," an era in which the reader/viewer is bombarded by text—printed, digital, and otherwise.