The Shakespeare User: Critical and Creative Appropriations in a Networked Culture

This innovative collection explores uses of Shakespeare in a wide variety of 21^st century contexts, including business manuals, non-literary scholarship, database aggregation, social media, gaming, and creative criticism. Essays in this volume demonstrate that users’ critical and creative uses of the dramatist’s works position contemporary issues of race, power, identity, and authority in new networks that redefine Shakespeare and reconceptualize the ways in which he is processed in both sc...