What’s the Worst Thing You Can Do to Shakespeare?

Burt, Richard; Yates, Julian

doi:10.1057/9781137346094_1

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“…17 Each media form brings 'a series of variable frame effects predicated upon other media', as Richard Burt and Julian Yates describe it. 18 This loop effect and continuity between media forms, one enabling or preparing its user for another, means that into the digital media mix should be added the Shakespeare film for it too is part of the show's dense citational environment. Film adaptations of Shakespeare from the late 1990s and 2000s especially are characterised by media consciousness and self-referentiality, perhaps in response to new media and technologies, and theorise their own relation to the Shakespearean original.…”

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confidence: 99%

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%