Variable Objects: Shakespeare and Speculative Appropriation

✍ Scribed by Valerie M. Fazel (editor), Louise Geddes (editor)

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Year: 2021
Tongue: English
Leaves: 265
Edition: 1
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

Examines Shakespeare fragments as agents of appropriation

Drawing on new materialism and object-oriented ontology, Variable Objects proposes that Shakespeare is a vibrant object replete with a variable energy that accounts for its infinite meaning-making capacity. Using critical race theory, object oriented feminism, performance studies, Global Shakespeares, media studies and game theory, the collection’s essays explore the dialogic relationship between the Shakespeare object and its appropriation. Each chapter demonstrates that instead of moving away from the source of appropriation, an object-oriented approach can centralise Shakespeare without the constraints of outdated notions of fidelity. Highlighting the variable materiality inherent in Shakespeare, the collection foregrounds the political ecologies of literary objects as a new methodology for adaptation studies.

✦ Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
Contributors
Introduction: Bound in a Nutshell – Shakespeare’s Vibrant Matter
PART I: DISCIPLINARY OBJECTS
1. Beds, Handkerchiefs and Moving Objects in Othello
2. The Collectible Ofelia: Object-Oriented Feminisms and the Un-Human Corpus of Q1’s Dispensaniac
3. Bitcoin, Blockchains and the Bard
PART II: MEDIA OBJECTS
4. ‘Were I human’: Beingness and the Postcolonial Object in Westworld’s Appropriation of The Tempest
5. Finding Ludonarrative Harmony in the Limited Agency of Ophelia in Elsinore
6. Sympathise with the Losers: Performing Intellectual Loserdom in Shakespearean Biopic
7. Prosthetic Properties: The Materiality of Race and Gender in The Hollow Crown: The Wars of the Roses
PART III : HUMAN OBJECTS
8. ‘Intermission!’: Reading Race in the Objects of Key & Peele’s ‘Othello Tis My Shite’
9. Sight Unseen: Visualising Variability through Ontological Representations in Macbeth
10. The Thing Itself: Performance and the Celebrity Text
11. ‘The Promised End’: Shakespeare and Extinction
Index

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