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O’Neill, Stephen (2021) Bring yourself back online, Old Bill: Westworld’s media histories, or six degrees of separation from Shakespeare. Cahiers Élisabéthains: A Journal of English Renaissance Studies, 105 (1). pp. 93-116. ISSN 0184-7678
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Abstract
This article explores the polysemous intertextuality of Westworld, an example of ‘complex television’, and focuses particularly on its Shakespearean coordinates. In this
futuristic show about sentient androids who quote Shakespeare is a deep web of connections to other Shakespeare adaptations in film, digital cultures, and popular music. Through the perspectives of fan studies and media studies, the article argues that what
unfolds out of the show’s discourses and those of its fans, who engage with it through digital platforms and technologies, is a micro media history of Shakespeare. In turn, the show advances an understanding of Shakespeare as posthuman.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Additional Information: | Cite as: O’Neill, S. 2021, "Bring yourself back online, Old Bill: Westworld’s media histories, or six degrees of separation from Shakespeare", Cahiers élisabéthains, vol. 105, no. 1, pp. 93-116. |
| Keywords: | Westworld; William Shakespeare; complex television; intertextuality; fan studies; posthuman; |
| Academic Unit: | Faculty of Arts,Celtic Studies and Philosophy > School of English, Media & Theatre Studies > English |
| Item ID: | 17613 |
| Identification Number: | 10.1177/01847678211009414 |
| Depositing User: | Stephen O'Neill |
| Date Deposited: | 28 Sep 2023 10:16 |
| Journal or Publication Title: | Cahiers Élisabéthains: A Journal of English Renaissance Studies |
| Publisher: | SAGE Publications |
| Refereed: | Yes |
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| URI: | https://mu.eprints-hosting.org/id/eprint/17613 |
| Use Licence: | This item is available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike Licence (CC BY-NC-SA). Details of this licence are available here |
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