Shakespeare and geek culture

"From sci-fi to graphic novels, from boy scouts to board games, from cult films to the cult of theatre, Shakespeare is everywhere in popular culture. Where there is popular culture there are fans and nerds and geeks. The essays in this collection on Shakespeare and Geek Culture take an innovative approach to the study of Shakespeare's cultural presences, situating his works, his image and his brand to locate and explore the nature of that geekiness that, the authors argue, is a vital but unrecognized feature of the world of those who enjoy and are obsessed by Shakespeare, whether they are scholars, film fans, theatre-goers or members of legions of other groupings in which Shakespeare plays his part. Working at the intersections of a wide range of fields -- including fan studies and film analysis, cultural studies and fantasy/sci-fi theory - the authors demonstrate how the particularities of the connection between Shakespeare and geek culture generate new insights into the plays, poems and their larger cultural legacy in the 21st century"--

Shakespeare, Tolkien and geeking out / Andrew James Hartley -- "I opened a door; that is all" : Neil Gaiman's decidedly human Shakespeare in The Sandman / Emily Leverett -- Shakespeare unfocused in time : collective memory and anachronism in Terry Pratchett's Wyrd Sisters / Kyle Pivetti -- May the Bard be with you : the presence or absence of Shakespeare's language in sci-fi/fantasy adaptations / Ann Martinez -- Not now : the present in Shakespeare's past and Ooo's future / Andrew Tumminia -- "Let's kill Claudius in the church!" : fan fiction and wish fulfillment in Ryan North's To Be or Not to Be and Romeo and/or Juliet / Johnathan H. Pope -- Hiddleston-Shakespeare-Coriolanus, or rhizomatic crossings in fanfic / Stephen O'Neill -- The Bard is dead, long live the Bard : Kill Shakespeare and the popular death of the author / Douglas M. Lanier -- "There lies the substance" : Richard II and the adorkable paratext / Valerie Fazel and Louise Geddes -- On eating paper and drinking ink / Matt Kozusko -- Shakespeare and the renaissance of board games : appropriation and geek culture / Vernon Dickson -- The Bard of Boys' Life : Shakespeare and the construction of American boyhood / M. Tyle…