Arts & Entertainment
Shakespeare and Modern Popular Culture
Shakespeare and Star Trek, Shakespeare and Schwarzenegger, Shakespeare and rap, Shakespeare and Superman. What's up with that?
Wadleigh Memorial Library
Wednesday March 9 at 6:30 pm
In his provocative book, Shakespeare and Modern Popular Culture, UNH Associate Professor of English Douglas Lanier explores how and why it is that Shakespeare, perhaps more than any other major literary figure, is alluded to or adapted in so many different ways in contemporary popular culture, and for so many different audiences. His book addresses the history of Shakespeare’s interaction with popular culture and examines examples from many different mass media, including film, TV, comic books, popular fiction, and music.
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Prof. Douglas Lanier specializes in early British drama, particularly non-Shakespearean drama of the Elizabethan and Jacobean periods. He teaches a variety of courses in drama and theater history, Shakespeare, Renaissance literature, film, cultural studies and literary theory, and received a UNH Award for Excellence in Teaching in 2000.