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Shakespeare and Superheroes / Jeffrey Kahan.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Recreational ShakespearePublisher: Leeds : Arc Humanities Press, [2018]Copyright date: ©2018Description: 1 online resource (104 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781942401773
  • 9781942401780
Subject(s): Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. "I have shot mine arrow o'er the house, / And hurt my brother": Death and Redemption in Hamlet and Arrow -- Chapter 2. Of Guise and Gals: Wonder Woman and Shakespearean Cross- Dressing -- Chapter 3. Tonight at the Improv: Comedians Slay! Two Drink Minimum -- Postscript: Comic Books and Literary Values -- Index
Summary: This short book offers a series of thought experiments and invites Shakespeareans to rediscover the wonders and pleasures of fandom. It does not argue that comic books and movies can or should replace Shakespeare; the goal is to explore the values in both, to think of comics as allusively Shakespearean, telling similar stories, expressing similar concerns, exploring similar values. Shakespeare and Superheroes seeks to re-democratize criticism by encouraging all readers to engage in and to respond to literary arguments using their own common cultural language.
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - DeGruyter (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (dgr)9781942401780

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. "I have shot mine arrow o'er the house, / And hurt my brother": Death and Redemption in Hamlet and Arrow -- Chapter 2. Of Guise and Gals: Wonder Woman and Shakespearean Cross- Dressing -- Chapter 3. Tonight at the Improv: Comedians Slay! Two Drink Minimum -- Postscript: Comic Books and Literary Values -- Index

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This short book offers a series of thought experiments and invites Shakespeareans to rediscover the wonders and pleasures of fandom. It does not argue that comic books and movies can or should replace Shakespeare; the goal is to explore the values in both, to think of comics as allusively Shakespearean, telling similar stories, expressing similar concerns, exploring similar values. Shakespeare and Superheroes seeks to re-democratize criticism by encouraging all readers to engage in and to respond to literary arguments using their own common cultural language.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 21. Dez 2019)