Alien Shakespeares 2.0

Desmet, Christy

doi:10.4000/shakespeare.3877

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“…"Iago" and his speech acts are merely two units in a complex configuration of agents'. 31 As viewed through the lens of alien phenomenology, then, Shakespeare cannot be regarded as exclusively human. If, according to Bogost, 'the posthuman is still too human', Westworld delivers for those viewers in search of a posthuman sensibility.…”

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Bring yourself back online, Old Bill: Westworld’s media histories, or six degrees of separation from Shakespeare

O’Neill

2021

Cahiers Élisabéthains: A Journal of English Renaissance Studies

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This article explores the polysemous intertextuality of Westworld, an example of ‘complex television’, and focuses particularly on its Shakespearean coordinates. In this futuristic show about sentient androids who quote Shakespeare is a deep web of connections to other Shakespeare adaptations in film, digital cultures, and popular music. Through the perspectives of fan studies and media studies, the article argues that what unfolds out of the show’s discourses and those of its fans, who engage with it through digital platforms and technologies, is a micro media history of Shakespeare. In turn, the show advances an understanding of Shakespeare as posthuman.

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confidence: 99%