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Unspeakable ShaXXXspeares, Revised Edition

Queer Theory and American Kiddie Culture

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  • © 1998

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Authors:
  1. Richard Burt

    1. Northampton, USA

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxxiii
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  2. Introduction: Dumb and Dumber Shakespeares: Academic Fantasy, the Electronic Archive, Loser Criticism, and Other Diminished Critical Capacities

    • Richard Burt
    Pages 1-28

  3. The Love That Dare Not Speak Shakespeare’s Name: New Shakesqueer Cinema

    • Richard Burt
    Pages 29-75

  4. Deep Inside William Shakespeare: Pornographic Film and Video “Classics” and the Castrated Gaze

    • Richard Burt
    Pages 77-125

  5. Terminating Shakespeare with Extreme Prejudice: Postcolonial Cultural Cannibalism, Serial Quotation, and the Cinematic Spectacle of 1990s American Cultural Imperialism

    • Richard Burt
    Pages 127-158

  6. When Our Lips Synch Together: The Transvestite Voice, the Virtuoso, Speed, and Pumped-Up Volume in Some Over-heard Shakespeares

    • Richard Burt
    Pages 159-201

  7. My So-Called Shakespeare: Mourning the Canon in the Age of Postpatriarchal Multiculturalism, or the Shakespeare Pedagogue as Loser

    • Richard Burt
    Pages 203-238

  8. Conclusion: Spectres of ShaXXXspeare: Loser Criticism, Part Duh

    • Richard Burt
    Pages 239-246

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 247-318
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About this book

Unspeakable ShaXXXspeares is a savvy look at the wide range of adaptations, spin-offs, and citations of Shakespeare's plays in 1990s popular culture. What does it say about our culture when Shakespearean references turn up in television episodes of The Brady Bunch and Gilligan's Island, films such as In and Out and My Own Private Idaho, and hardcore porn adaptations of Hamlet and Romeo and Juliet? Burt reads the reception of these often quite bad replays in relation to contemporary youth culture and the "queering" of Shakespeare.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Northampton, USA

    Richard Burt

About the author

Richard Burt is a professor of English at the University of Massachusetts,
Amherst. He is the coeditor of Shakespeare the Movie.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Unspeakable ShaXXXspeares, Revised Edition

  • Book Subtitle: Queer Theory and American Kiddie Culture

  • Authors: Richard Burt

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-07867-4

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York

  • eBook Packages: Palgrave Literature & Performing Arts Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 1998

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-0-312-22685-5Published: 03 December 1999

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-07867-4Published: 30 April 2016

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXXIII, 318

  • Topics: Poetry and Poetics, Film History

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