The Hamlet Mash-Up

Authors

  • Geoff Klock, Borough of Manhattan Community College, City University of New York, USA

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.31436/asiatic.v6i2.264

Abstract

Shakespeare’s Hamlet is one of the most famous works of art in the world, and has inspired countless interpretations, allusions, references and discussions. The author describes his creation of a video collage of Hamlet material, that shows, rather than claims, the ubiquity of Hamlet, and points toward what Shakespeare could look like after the advent of the Internet. Hamlet’s value as Hollywood shorthand is discussed, and some of the throwaway Hamlet references are seen to be more complex than they may first appear. Projects of a similar nature are discussed and encouraged.

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Author Biography

Geoff Klock, Borough of Manhattan Community College, City University of New York, USA

Geoff Klock received his doctorate in English Literature from The University of Oxford. He has written two books, How to Read Superhero Comics and Why (Continuum, 2002) and Imaginary Biographies: Misreading the Lives of the Poets (Continuum, 2007). The first applies Harold Bloom’s poetics of influence to popular culture and the second argues that seven poems from the 19th and 20th centuries represent a genre in which the main character is a historical poet bizarrely interpreted. He teaches composition courses as well as British Literature, and Film at the Borough of Manhattan Community College, City University of New York, USA.  

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Published

2012-12-15

How to Cite

Klock, Borough of Manhattan Community College, City University of New York, USA, G. (2012). The Hamlet Mash-Up. Asiatic: IIUM Journal of English Language and Literature, 6(2), 128–135. https://doi.org/10.31436/asiatic.v6i2.264

Issue

Vol. 6 No. 2 (2012): December

Section

Poetry and Poetics of Popular Culture

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