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Casey, Jim and Brandon Christopher, eds. Shakespeare and Comics: Negotiating Cultural Value. Shakespeare and Adaptation. New York: Bloomsbury, 2024. Added by: joachim (01/12/2025, 17:05) Last edited by: joachim (01/12/2025, 22:46) |
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| Resource type: Book Language: en: English DOI: 10.5040/9781350401372 ID no. (ISBN etc.): 9781350401341 BibTeX citation key: Casey2024 Email resource to friend View all bibliographic details  |
Categories: General Keywords: Adaptation, Collection of essays, Literature, Shakespeare. William Creators: Casey, Christopher Publisher: Bloomsbury (New York) |
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From their inception, 'low culture' comics have intersected with the 'high culture' of Shakespeare. This is the first book-length collection dedicated entirely to the exploration of this collision. Its chapters illuminate the ways in which different texts, time periods, politics, authors, media, approaches and forms interact. Ranging from Classic Comics to Marvel, from tebeo to manga, from independent to mainstream comics, texts explored include Y: The Last Man, Neil Gaiman and Charles Vess's 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' (The Sandman #19), The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, I Am Alfonso Jones, Marvel 1602, Doom 2099, and manga adaptations of The Tempest and Macbeth, among many others. As comic books and their big-screen progeny dominate mainstream popular culture, the association of Shakespeare with comics offers creators and critics tools with which to interrogate the place of Shakespeare within the English and global literary and cultural traditions. Shakespeare and Comics argues that, at a moment when the reassessment and reimagining of literary canons has become more urgent than ever, thinking about Shakespeare through the lens of comics invites us to imagine a literary and cultural landscape in which so-called 'great works' exist alongside and in equal conversation with marginalized writers, topics and forms. |