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Jim Casey, “HypeRomeo & Juliet: Postmodern Adaptation and Shakespeare.” This essay combines Douglas Lanier’s Shakespearean Rhizomatics with Jean Baudrillard’s hyperreality in order to more effectively explore the theoretical boundaries of “Shakespeare” and provide a new paradigm for understanding the orismological landscape of Shakespearean adaptation. Pairing the neutrally evaluative tool of rhizomatics with the theoretical concept of hyperreality in order to present a much more accurate relational map, Casey examines Fumitoshi Oizaki’s anime Romeo x Juliet as a perfect example of both the iterative process of translation and the multiple voices of a “Shakespeare” that has become increasingly hyperreal.
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Casey, J. (2017). HypeRomeo & Juliet: Postmodern Adaptation and Shakespeare. In: Desmet, C., Loper, N., Casey, J. (eds) Shakespeare / Not Shakespeare. Reproducing Shakespeare. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-63300-8_4
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