Unspeakable ShaXXXspeares Queer Theory and American Kiddie Culture

Unspeakable ShaXXXspeares is a savvy look at the wide range of adaptations, spin-offs, and citations of Shakespeare's plays in 1990s popular culture. What does it say about our culture when Shakespearean references turn up in television episodes of The Brady Bunch and Gilligan's Island, fi...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Burt, Richard
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York Palgrave Macmillan US 1998, 1998
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Collection: Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
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Summary:Unspeakable ShaXXXspeares is a savvy look at the wide range of adaptations, spin-offs, and citations of Shakespeare's plays in 1990s popular culture. What does it say about our culture when Shakespearean references turn up in television episodes of The Brady Bunch and Gilligan's Island, films such as In and Out and My Own Private Idaho, and hardcore porn adaptations of Hamlet and Romeo and Juliet? Burt reads the reception of these often quite bad replays in relation to contemporary youth culture and the "queering" of Shakespeare
Physical Description:XXXIII, 318 p online resource
ISBN:9781137078674