Shakespeare After Mass Media

Shakespeare in mass media–particularly film, video, and television–is arguably the fastest growing research agenda in Shakespeare studies. Shakespeare after Mass Media provides both students and scholars with the most comprehensive resource available on the market for studying the extraordinary afterlife of Shakespeare’s plays in a wide range of media. From marketing to electronic Shakespeares, comics to romance novels, Star Trek to Kenneth Branagh, radio and popular music to Bartlett’s Quotations, the contributors explore the contemporary cultural significance of Shakespeare with theoretical sophistication and accessible writing.

Eleven professors and two doctoral candidates in English at US schools are the contributors to this volume on Shakespeare in today's mass media. They discuss treatment of the Bard's plays and players in film, television, radio, and electronic media, with case studies devoted to pop music, radio station WSHX, Broadway musicals, and Julie Taymor's Titus. Burt teaches English at U. of Massachusetts at Amherst. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Richard Burt is Professor of English and Film and Media Studies, University of Florida. He is the author of Unspeakable ShaXXXspeares: Queer Theory and American Kiddie Culture; Licensed by Authority: Ben Jonson and the Discourses of Censorship; and the editor of Shakespeare After Shakespeare; Shakespeare After Mass Media; and The Administration of Aesthetics. Burt also co-edited a special issue of Exemplaria on “Movie Medievalism” and held a Fulbright scholarship in Berlin, Germany from 1995–96.