Broadcast your Shakespeare

Stephen O’Neill is a Lecturer in the Department of English, National University of Ireland Maynooth,Ireland. His most recent book is Shakespeare and YouTube: New Media Forms of the Bard (Bloomsbury, 2014).

The result is a wide-ranging and incisive study… Broadcast Your Shakespeare is a valuable guide to Shakespeare as he has been repeatedly remade.

• AcknowledgementsList of IllustrationsNote on Procedures and Abbreviations Note on ContributorsIntroduction: ‘“Sow’d and Scattered”: Shakespeare’s Media Ecologies’ Stephen O’Neill, Maynooth University, IrelandPart I: The Politics of Broadcast(ing) Shakespeare 1. ‘Broadcasting Censorship: Hollywood’s Production Code and A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ Darlena Ciraulo, University of Central Missouri, USA2. ‘Broadcasting the Bard: Orson Welles, Shakespeare, and War’ Robert Sawyer, East Tennessee State University, USA3. ‘This Distracted Globe This Brave New World: Learning from the MIT Global Shakespeares’ Twenty-First Century' Diana Henderson, MIT Boston, USA 4. ‘“Once more to the breach!”: Shakespeare, Wikipedia’s Gender Gap, and the Online, Digital Elite’ David C. Moberly, University of Minnesota, USAPart II: Genre and Audience 5. ‘Emo Hamlet: Locating Shakespearean Affect in Social Media’ Christy Desmet, University of Georgia, USA 6. ‘“It Is Worth the Listening To”: The Phonograph and the Teaching of Shakespeare in the Early Twentieth-Century America’ Joseph Haughey, Northwest Missouri State University, USA 7. ‘Juliet, Tumbld: Fan Renovations of Shakespeare’s Juliet on Tumblr™’, Kirk Hendershott-Kraetzer, Olivet College, USA8. ‘“Certain o'er incertainty”: Troilus and Cressida, Ambiguity and the Lewis episode “Generation of Vipers”’, Sarah Olive, University of York, UKPart III: Broadcast the Self: Celebrity and Identity 9. ‘Vlogging the Bard: Serialization, Social Media, Shakespeare’ Douglas Lanier, University of New Hampshire, USA10. ‘Tweeting Television / Broadcasting the Bard: @HollowCrownFans and Digital Shakespeares’, Romano Mullin, Queen's University Belfast, UK 11. ‘“Somewhere in the World … Someone misquoted Shakespeare. I can sense it": Tom Hiddleston performing the Shakespearean online' Anna Blackwell, DeMontfort University, UKAfterword: Courtney Lehmann, University of the Pacific, USA NotesIndex