Shakespeare's serial returns in complex TV /
This book examines how Shakespeares plays resurface in current complex television series. Its four case studies bring together The Tempest and the science fiction Western Westworld, King Lear and the satirical dynastic drama of Succession, Hamlet and the legal thriller Black Earth Rising, as well as...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Palgrave Macmillan,
[2020]
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| Series: | Reproducing Shakespeare.
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| Summary: | This book examines how Shakespeares plays resurface in current complex television series. Its four case studies bring together The Tempest and the science fiction Western Westworld, King Lear and the satirical dynastic drama of Succession, Hamlet and the legal thriller Black Earth Rising, as well as Coriolanus and the political thriller Homeland. The comparative readings ask what new insights the twenty-first century remediations may grant us into Shakespeares texts and, vice versa, how Shakespearean returns help us understand topical concerns negotiated in the series, such as artificial intelligence, the safeguarding of democracy, terrorism and postcolonial justice. This study also proposes that the dramaturgical seriality typical of complex television allows insights into the seriality Shakespeare employed in structuring his plays. Discussing a broad spectrum of adaptational constellations and establishing key characteristics of the new adaptational aggregate of serial Shakespeare, it seeks to initiate a dialogue between Shakespeare studies, adaptation studies and television studies. |
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| Physical Description: | ix, 267 pages ; 22 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-261) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9783030468507 303046850X |