Shakespearean Celebrity in the Digital Age Fan Cultures and Remediation /

• Main Author: Blackwell, Anna (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Palgrave Studies in Adaptation and Visual Culture
• Subjects: Motion pictures.; Digital media.; Literature, Modern.; Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.; British literature.; Poetry.; Adaptation Studies.; Digital/New Media.; Shakespeare.; British and Irish Literature.; Poetry and Poetics.

This book offers a timely examination of the relationship between Shakespeare and contemporary digital media. By focusing upon a variety of 'Shakespearean' individuals, groups and communities and their 'online' presence, the book explores the role of popular internet culture in t...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction
• 2. Pre-digital Shakespearean celebrity
• 3. Performing the Shakespearean body: Tom Hiddleston Onstage and Online
• 4. Professional and 'amateur' Shakespeareanism onstage and online
• 5. Richard III, the digital Shakespearean
• 6. Conclusion.