ABSTRACT

"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.

chapter 1|25 pages

Introduction

Post-Hamlet

section I|73 pages

Post-Hamlet Appropriations

chapter 2|19 pages

Post-Human Hamlets

Ghosts in the Machine

chapter 3|13 pages

Or Not to Be

Dancing Beyond Hamlet in Christopher Wheeldon’s Misericordes/Elsinore

chapter 4|14 pages

“It’s the Opheliac in me”

Ophelia, Emilie Autumn, and the Role of Hamlet in Discussing Mental Disability

chapter 5|14 pages

“I the matter will reword”

The Ghost of Hamlet in Translation

chapter 6|13 pages

Locating Hamlet in Kashmir

Haider, Terrorism, and Shakespearean Transmission

section II|52 pages

Post-Hamlet Performances

chapter 7|18 pages

“Denmark is A Prison”

Hamlet for Inclusive and Incarcerated Audiences

chapter 8|18 pages

Revisionist Q1 and the Poetics of Alternatives

Vindicating Hamlet’s “Bad” Quarto on Page and Stage in Japan and Beyond

chapter 9|16 pages

“Poem Unlimited, Space Unlimited”

The Case of the Naked Hamlet

section III|44 pages

Post-Hamlet Classrooms

chapter 10|17 pages

After Words

Hamlet’s Unfinished Business in the Liberal Arts Classroom

chapter 11|14 pages

“Read freely, my dear”

Education and Agency in Lisa Klein’s Ophelia

chapter 12|13 pages

To Relate or Not to Relate

Questioning the Pedagogical Value of Relatable Shakespeare

section IV|47 pages

Post-Hamlet Post-Script

chapter 13|47 pages

DIE-JESTING stURNe’s BURIALLs

Publication, Plagiarism, Pseudonymity, Pseudography, Cenography, Palimpsestuosity, Posthumography, and the Propriety or Pathos of Posterity 1