Shakespeare After Mass Media

by Richard Burt

Shakespeare in mass media - particularly film, video, and television - is arguably the hottest, fastest growing research agenda in Shakespeare studies. Shakespeare after Mass Media provides students and scholars with the most comprehensive resource available on the market for studying the pop cultural afterlife of The Bard. From marketing to electronic Shakespeare, comics to romance novels, Star Trek to Branagh, radio and popular music to Bartlett's Quotations , the volume explores the contemporary cultural significance of Shakespeare in an unprecedently broad array of mass media contexts. With theoretical sophistication and accessible writing, it will be the ideal text for courses on Shakespeare and mass media.

Genres: Shakespeare

352 pages, Paperback

First published January 11, 2002

Reviews

[Kelsey Brennan]

I picked up this book from a library display commemorating 400 years since Shakespeare's death. Strange then, that a book about a man whose work is still relevant today would be so dated only 14 years on the shelves.

This book feels very quaint, and the writing style is stereotypically academic, and therefore not particularly engaging for someone not in the specific discipline being explored.

I do, however, think there were some interesting points about out of context interpretations.