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Shakespearean Echoes assembles a global cast of established and emerging scholars to explore new connections between Shakespeare and contemporary culture, reflecting the complexities and conflicts of Shakespeare's current international afterlife.

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Author:   A. Hansen ,  K. Wetmore Jr. ,  Kevin J. Wetmore Jr.
Publisher:   Palgrave Macmillan
Imprint:   Palgrave Macmillan
Dimensions:   Width: 14.00cm , Height: 1.40cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   3.943kg
ISBN:  

9781137380012

ISBN 10:   1137380012
Pages:   218
Publication Date:   07 May 2015
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

List of illustrations Acknowledgements Notes on the contributors Introduction; Adam Hansen and Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr. 1. Reviving Cowden Clarke: Rewriting Shakespeare's Heroines in Young Adult Fiction; Laurie Osborne 2. 'Give me my sin again': Disco Does Shakespeare; Adam Hansen 3. Echoes of Romeo and Juliet in Let the Right One In and Let Me In; Gregory Colon Semenza 4. The Immortal Vampire of Stratford Upon Avon; Kevin J. Wetmore 5. Cliché 'By any other name…' Or Romeo and Juliet: The Telenovela; Alfredo Michel Modenessi 6. Shakespeare Sells / Selling Shakespeare; J. Caitlin Finlayson 7. Othello's Ipad; Lauren Shohet 8. Echoes of The Tempest in Tron: Legacy; Laura Campillo Arnaiz 9. Cursing the Queer Family: Shakespeare, Psychoanalysis, and My Own Private Idaho; Sharon O'Dair 10. History as Echo: Entertainment Historiography from Shakespeare to HBO's Game of Thrones; Amy Rodgers 11. 'This is Not the Play': Shakespeare, Space Opera in Lois McMaster Bujold's Vorkosigan Saga; Patricia Taylor 12. The Tempest's 'Standing Water': Echoes of Early Modern Cosmographies in Lost; Todd Landon Barnes Notes Bibliography Index

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Laura Campillo Arnaiz, University of Murcia, Spain Todd Landon Barnes, Ramapo College of New Jersey, USA J. Caitlin Finlayson, University of Michigan-Dearborn, USA Adam Hansen, Northumbria University, UK Courtney Lehmann, University of the Pacific, USA Alfredo Michel Modenessi, National University of Mexico, Mexico Sharon O'Dair, University of Alabama, USA Laurie E. Osborne, Colby College, USA Amy Rodgers, Mount Holyoke College, USA Greg Colón Semenza, University of Connecticut, USA Lauren Shohet, Villanova University, USA Patricia R. Taylor, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr., Loyola Marymount University, USA

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