Shakespeare Comics

Art, Time and Character

Svenn-Arve Myklebost (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

272 Seiten

2025
Edinburgh University Press (Verlag)
978-1-3995-4646-1 (ISBN)

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Identifies how comics, manga and graphic novels reshape Shakespeare’s works in manners unavailable to other media.

Investigating how character, time and art manifest and interact in the visual-verbal medium of Shakespeare comics, Svenn-Arve Myklebost uncovers how this medium (which includes comic books, graphic novels and manga) reframes and interrogates the Shakespeare canon. He argues that comics’ blend of literary narrativity, dramatic action and fine art draw out elements of the plays, their genesis and afterlife that other media cannot capture. Among comics’ distinct affordances are their spatial treatment of time, their ability to mix genres and media, their meta-aspects, their art-historical roots, their position within print culture, their “dramatic” combination of words and visuals, and their generic flexibility – all of which offer new ways to look at Shakespeare’s dramatic and printed production.

Svenn-Arve Myklebost is Associate Professor in the Department of English at the Inland Norway University. His research focuses on Shakespeare and the visual arts, comics, translation and occultism in literature. He coordinates The Bergen-Hamar Shakespeare Network and edits the open-access journal Early Modern Culture Online.

List of Figures
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations

Part I. Frameworks
King Lear, Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth, Hamlet
1. Shakespeare Comics: Introduction
2. The History and Design of Shakespeare Comics
3. Time, Space and Text in Shakespeare Comics

Part II. Performance, Genre and Character
Twelfth Night, Othello, The Merchant of Venice
4. Performance and Genre
5. Character: Malvolio and Shylock
6. Character: Othello and Iago

Part III. Image and History
Twelfth Night, Othello, The Tempest, Henry VIII, King Lear
7. Perspective
8. Emblems, Figures and Iconographic Allusion
9. Historical Perspectives

Shakespeare Comics: Conclusion

Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	19.07.2025
Zusatzinfo	48 b&w illustrations
Verlagsort	Edinburgh
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Comic / Humor / Manga
	Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Dramatik / Theater
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-3995-4646-5 / 1399546465
ISBN-13	978-1-3995-4646-1 / 9781399546461
Zustand	Neuware