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Article: Shakespeare and Modern Academics. (Reviews).(Shakespeare after Mass Media)(Book Review)
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- Contemporary Review
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- March 1, 2003
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Shakespeare after Mass Media. Richard Burt, editor. Palgrave. [pounds sterling]40.00. 340 pages. ISBN 0-312-29453-0.
This collection is devoted to schlock, the mass or popular leavings to which Shakespeare has been reduced. Here one may read at length of Shakespeare in Harlequin romances, comic books, Star Trek ('The Shatnerification of Shakespeare'), all treated with scholarly reverence. The tone is set by Richard Burt, the editor, in his challenging introduction 'To e- or not to e-? Disposing of Schlockspeare in the Age of Digital Media'. The publishers cannot have provided any intervening editorial agency, other than the copy-editor, and Mr Burt's values ...