Shakespeare’s Hamlet in an Era of Textual Exhaustion

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"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 Shakespeare’s Hamlet as a central symbol of our era’s "textual exhaustion," an era in which the reader/viewer is bombarded by text—printed, digital, and otherwise. The essays in this edited collection, divided into four sections, focus on the radical employment of Hamlet as a cultural artifact that adaptors and readers use to depart from textual "authority" in, for instance, radical English-language performance, international film and stage performance, pop-culture and multi-media appropriation, and pedagogy. Cover......Page 1 Half Title......Page 2 Title Page......Page 4 Copyright Page......Page 5 Contents......Page 6 List of Figures......Page 8 Acknowledgements......Page 10 Notes on Contributors......Page 12 1 Introduction: Post-Hamlet......Page 16 SECTION I: Post-Hamlet Appropriations......Page 42 2 Post-Human Hamlets: Ghosts in the Machine......Page 44 3 Or Not to Be: Dancing Beyond Hamlet in Christopher Wheeldon’s Misericordes/Elsinore......Page 61 4 “It’s the Opheliac in me”: Ophelia, Emilie Autumn, and the Role of Hamlet in Discussing Mental Disability......Page 74 5 “I the matter will reword”: The Ghost of Hamlet in Translation......Page 88 6 Locating Hamlet in Kashmir: Haider, Terrorism, and Shakespearean Transmission......Page 102 SECTION II: Post-Hamlet Performances......Page 116 7 “Denmark is A Prison”: Hamlet for Inclusive and Incarcerated Audiences......Page 118 8 Revisionist Q1 and the Poetics of Alternatives: Vindicating Hamlet’s “Bad” Quarto on Page and Stage in Japan and Beyond......Page 134 9 “Poem Unlimited, Space Unlimited”: The Case of the Naked Hamlet......Page 152 SECTION III: Post-Hamlet Classrooms......Page 168 10 After Words: Hamlet’s Unfinished Business in the Liberal Arts Classroom......Page 170 11 “Read freely, my dear”: Education and Agency in Lisa Klein’s Ophelia......Page 185 12 To Relate or Not to Relate: Questioning the Pedagogical Value of Relatable Shakespeare......Page 199 SECTION IV: Post-Hamlet Post-Script......Page 212 13 DIE-JESTING stURNe’s BURIALLs: Publication, Plagiarism, Pseudonymity, Pseudography, Cenography, Palimpsestuosity, Posthumography, and the Propriety or Pathos of Posterity......Page 214 Index......Page 260