{"product_id":"shakespeare-and-comics-9781350401389","title":"Shakespeare and Comics","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFrom their inception, ‘low culture’ comics have intersected with the ‘high culture’ of Shakespeare. This is the first book-length collection dedicated entirely to the exploration of this collision.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIts chapters illuminate the ways in which different texts, time periods, politics, authors, media, approaches and forms interact. Ranging from Classic Comics to Marvel, from \u003cem\u003etebeo\u003c\/em\u003e to manga, from independent to mainstream comics, texts explored include \u003cem\u003eY: The Last Man,\u003c\/em\u003e Neil Gaiman and Charles Vess’s \u003cem\u003eA Midsummer Night’s Dream (The Sandman #19), The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, I Am Alfonso Jones, Marvel 1602, Doom 2099,\u003c\/em\u003e and manga adaptations of \u003cem\u003eThe Tempest\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eMacbeth,\u003c\/em\u003e among many others.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAs comic books and their big-screen progeny dominate mainstream popular culture, the association of Shakespeare with comics offers creators and critics tools with which to interrogate the place of Shakespeare within the English and global literary and cultural traditions. \u003cem\u003eShakespeare and Comics\u003c\/em\u003e argues that, at a moment when the reassessment and reimagining of literary canons has become more urgent than ever, thinking about Shakespeare through the lens of comics invites us to imagine a literary and cultural landscape in which so-called ‘great works’ exist alongside and in equal conversation with marginalised writers, topics and forms.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47934211227884,"sku":"9781350401389","price":141.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781350401389-shakespeare-and-comics.jpg?v=1783906212","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.pro\/products\/shakespeare-and-comics-9781350401389","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}