Shakespeare's Serial Returns in Complex TV

by Christina Wald

Book Overview

This book examines how Shakespeare's plays resurface in current complex TV series. Its four case studies bring together The Tempest and the science fiction-Western Westworld, King Lear and the satirical dynastic drama of Succession, Hamlet and the legal thriller Black Earth Rising, as well as Coriolanus and the political thriller Homeland. The comparative readings ask what new insights the twenty-first-century...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3030468534
• ISBN13: 9783030468538
• Release Date: November 2021
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 267 Pages
• Weight: 0.81 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.8" x 8.3"