Overview
- Offers a new approach to Shakespeare by assessing the author and the reception of his works through the critical lens of fan studies
- Expands the historical understanding of fandom and examines the interplay between fan studies and the more ‘traditional’ field of adaptation theory
- Uses interdisciplinary approaches to explore Shakespeare’s influence and importance within a variety of media formats, both ‘high-culture’ and ‘popular-culture’
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Adaptation and Visual Culture (PSADVC)
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Table of contents (6 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book examines Shakespearean adaptations through the critical lens of fan studies and asks what it means to be a fan of Shakespeare in the context of contemporary media fandom. Although Shakespeare studies and fan studies have remained largely separate from one another for the past thirty years, this book establishes a sustained dialogue between the two fields. In the process, it reveals and seeks to overcome the problematic assumptions about the history of fan cultures, Shakespeare’s place in that history, and how fan works are defined. While fandom is normally perceived as a recent phenomenon focused primarily on science fiction and fantasy, this book traces fans’ practices back to the eighteenth century, particularly David Garrick’s Shakespeare Jubilee in 1769. Shakespeare’s Fans connects historical and scholarly debates over who owns Shakespeare and what constitutes an appropriate adaptation of his work to online fan fiction and commercially available fan works.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Johnathan H. Pope is a Visiting Assistant Professor at the Memorial University of Newfoundland (Grenfell Campus, Canada). His primary research area is Shakespeare, film, and popular culture, and he maintains an abiding interest in early modern theories of corporeality and the soul.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Shakespeare’s Fans
Book Subtitle: Adapting the Bard in the Age of Media Fandom
Authors: Johnathan H. Pope
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Adaptation and Visual Culture
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-33726-1
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-33725-4Published: 18 December 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-33728-5Published: 18 December 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-33726-1Published: 05 December 2019
Series ISSN: 2634-629X
Series E-ISSN: 2634-6303
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VII, 184
Topics: Adaptation Studies, Shakespeare