SHAKESPEARE�S HAMLET IN AN ERA OF TEXTUAL EXHAUSTION

<p>Post-<i>Hamlet</i>: Shakespeare in an Era of Textual Exhaustion examines how postmodern audiences continue to reengage with <i>Hamlet </i>in spite of our culture’s oversaturation with this most canonical of texts. Combining adaptation theory and performance theory with examinations of avant-garde performances and other unconventional appropriations of Shakespeare’s play <i>Post-</i>Hamlet examines Shakespeare’s <i>Hamlet</i> as a central symbol of our era’s textual exhaustion an era in which the reader/viewer is bombarded by text—printed digital and otherwise. The essays in this edited collection divided into four sections focus on the radical employment of <i>Hamlet</i> as a cultural artifact that adaptors and readers use to depart from textual authority in for instance radical English-language performance international film and stage performance pop-culture and multi-media appropriation and pedagogy.</p>