Shakespeare and Game Of Thrones
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Take Shakespeare, add dragons, zombies, naked people, and corporate interests, take away the verse, and you get Game of Thrones.
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It is widely acknowledged that the hit franchise Game of Thrones is based on the Wars of the Roses, a bloody fifteenth-century civil war between feuding English families. In this book, Jeffrey R. Wilson shows how that connection was mediated by Shakespeare, and how a knowledge of the Shakespearean context enriches our understanding of the literary elements of Game of Thrones.
On the one hand, Shakespeare influenced Game of Thrones indirectly because his history plays significantly shaped the way the Wars of the Roses are now remembered, including the modern histories and historical fictions George R.R. Martin drew upon. On the other, Game of Thrones also responds to Shakespeare’s first tetralogy directly by adapting several of its literary strategies (such as shifting perspectives, mixed genres, and metatheater) and tropes (including the stigmatized protagonist and the prince who was promised). Presenting new interviews with the Game of Thrones cast, and comparing contextual circumstances of composition—such as collaborative authorship and political currents—this book also lodges a series of provocations about writing and acting for the stage in the Elizabethan age and for the screen in the twenty-first century.
An essential read for fans of the franchise, as well as students and academics looking at Shakespeare and Renaissance literature in the context of modern media.
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Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. The Tudor Myth
2. Martin’s Shakespeare
3. The Shakespearean Slingshot
4. Composition History and Co(rporate)-Authorship
5. From True Tragedy to Historical Fantasy
6. Comical-Tragical-Historical-Pastoral: Mixed Genre
7. Narrative Relief: From Comedy to Nudity
8. Spectacle and Success from the Medieval Church Service to CGI
9. Game of Thrones as Shakespearean Performance: Interviews with the Actors
10. External Predictability, Internal Unpredictability
11. Eddard as Gloucester: De Casibus Virorum Illustrum
12. Wars of Roses: A Literary Trope in Social Life
13. The Stigmatized Protagonist: The Tragic Model and the Heroic Model
14. Girl Power: Mimetic Feminism and Rhetorical Misogyny
15. Generic Bias: Gender, Race, Criticism
16. The Bloody Hand: Intertextual Metatheater
17. The Targaryen Myth
18. How George R.R. Martin Changed the Ending of Game Of Thrones
19. Fandom as IKEA Effect
Index
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