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Shakespeare's Serial Returns in Complex TV

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This book examines how Shakespeare's plays resurface in current complex TV series. Its four case studies bring together Coriolanus and the political thriller Homeland, King Lear and the satirical dynastic story of Succession, Hamlet and the legal thriller Black Earth Rising, as well as The Tempest and the science fiction-Western Westworld. The comparative readings ask what new insights the twenty-first-century remediations may grant us into Shakespeare's texts and, vice versa, how Shakespearean returns help us understand topical concerns negotiated in the series, such as terrorism, the safeguarding of democracy, postcolonialism, and artificial intelligence. This study also proposes that the dramaturgical seriality typical of complex TV allows insights into the seriality Shakespeare employed in structuring his plays. Discussing a broad spectrum of adaptational strategies and establishing key characteristics of the new adaptational aggregate of serial Shakespeare, it seeks to initiate a dialogue between Shakespeare studies, adaptation studies, and TV studies.

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan

Release: October 11, 2020

ISBN: 303046850X

ISBN 13: 9783030468507

Shakespeare's Serial Returns in Complex TV

4/5 ( ratings)

This book examines how Shakespeare's plays resurface in current complex TV series. Its four case studies bring together Coriolanus and the political thriller Homeland, King Lear and the satirical dynastic story of Succession, Hamlet and the legal thriller Black Earth Rising, as well as The Tempest and the science fiction-Western Westworld. The comparative readings ask what new insights the twenty-first-century remediations may grant us into Shakespeare's texts and, vice versa, how Shakespearean returns help us understand topical concerns negotiated in the series, such as terrorism, the safeguarding of democracy, postcolonialism, and artificial intelligence. This study also proposes that the dramaturgical seriality typical of complex TV allows insights into the seriality Shakespeare employed in structuring his plays. Discussing a broad spectrum of adaptational strategies and establishing key characteristics of the new adaptational aggregate of serial Shakespeare, it seeks to initiate a dialogue between Shakespeare studies, adaptation studies, and TV studies.

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan

Release: October 11, 2020

ISBN: 303046850X

ISBN 13: 9783030468507

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