Broadcast your Shakespeare: Continuity and Change Across Media

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This volume of essays contributes to current debates about Shakespeare in new media. It importantly develops the field by providing a comparativist approach to Shakespeares dynamic media history. Contributors to Broadcast Your Shakespeare address the variety of ways Shakespeare texts have been expressed through different media and continue to be. Writing at the intersection of Shakespeare studies and media studies, these international contributors also consider the role of a particular media in producing Shakespeares effect on us - as readers, viewers and users. The volume suggests how current analyses of new media Shakespeare have much to learn from older media, and that an awareness both of media specificity and also continuity can enhance Shakespeare pedagogy and research.

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The result is a wide-ranging and incisive study Broadcast Your Shakespeare is a valuable guide to Shakespeare as he has been repeatedly remade. * Studies in English Literature 1500 - 1900 *
The book is an expansive, wide-ranging assessment of what it means to broadcast ShakespeareBecause of its carefully balanced attention to both platform and user, Broadcast Your Shakespeare manages successfully to navigate a wide range of adaptive processes, offering more than a selection of interesting case studies. As such, it points the way to valuable new directions in the field of appropriation studies. * Shakespeare Quarterly *

Author Bio

Stephen ONeill is a Lecturer in the Department of English, National University of Ireland Maynooth,Ireland. His most recent book is Shakespeare and YouTube: New Media Forms of the Bard (Bloomsbury, 2014).