1st Edition

SHAKESPEARE�S HAMLET IN AN ERA OF TEXTUAL EXHAUSTION

Edited By Sonya Freeman Loftis, Allison Kellar, Lisa Ulevich Copyright 2018
262 Pages
by Routledge

262 Pages
by Routledge

262 Pages
by Routledge

"Post- Hamlet : Shakespeare in an Era of Textual Exhaustion" examines how postmodern audiences continue to reengage with Hamlet in spite of our culture’s oversaturation with this most canonical of texts. Combining adaptation theory and performance theory with examinations of avant-garde performances and other unconventional appropriations of Shakespeare’s play, Post- Hamlet examines... Read more

Acknowledgments



Notes on Contributors





Chapter 1. Introduction: Post-Hamlet



Sonya Freeman Loftis, Allison Kellar, and Lisa Ulevich





Section I: Post-Hamlet Appropriations



Chapter 2. Posthuman Hamlets: Ghosts in the Machine



Todd Andrew Borlik



Chapter 3. Or Not to Be: Dancing Beyond Hamlet in Christopher Wheeldon’s Misericordes/Elsinore



Elizabeth Klett



Chapter 4. "It’s the Opheliac in me": Ophelia, Emilie Autumn, and the role of Hamlet in Discussing Mental Disability



Chloe Owen



Chapter 5. "I the matter will reword": The Ghost of Hamlet in Translation



Jim Casey



Chapter 6. Locating Hamlet in Kashmir: Haider, Terrorism, and Shakespearean Transmission



Amrita Sen





Section II: Post-Hamlet Performances



Chapter 7. "Denmark is a Prison": Hamlet for Inclusive and Incarcerated Audiences



Sheila T. Cavanagh



Chapter 8. Revisionist Q1 and the Poetics of Alternatives: Vindicating Hamlet’s "Bad" Quarto on Page and Stage in Japan and Beyond



Yi-Hsin Hsu



Chapter 9. "Poem Unlimited, Space Unlimited": The Case of the Naked Hamlet



Adam Sheaffer





Section III: Post-Hamlet Classrooms



Chapter 10. After Words: Hamlet’s Unfinished Business in the Liberal Arts Classroom



Deneen Senasi



Chapter 11. "Read freely, my dear": Education and Agency in Lisa Klein’s Ophelia



Victoria R. Farmer



Chapter 12. To Relate or Not to Relate: Questioning the Pedagogical Value of Relatable Hamlet



Erin M. Presley





Section IV: Post-Hamlet Post-Script



Chapter 13. DIE-JES

Biography

Sonya Freeman Loftis is an Associate Professor of English at Morehouse College.



Allison Kellar is an Assistant Professor of English and Director of Honors at Wingate University.



Lisa Ulevich received her Ph.D. from Georgia State University in 2016. Her research interests include the poetics of allusion, narrative theory, and the mediation of identity through poetic and other formal structures.