Hacking Adaptation: Updating, Porting, and Forking the Shakespearean Source Code.

This essay proposes that computer hacking can provide us with an appropriate framework through which to rethink the basic workings of adaptation in general and Shakespeare adaptation in particular in the twenty-first century. Building on the work of Thomas Leitch and Sarah Cardwell in adaptation stu...

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Publicado en:Adaptation Vol. 14; no. 1; pp. 1 - 23
Autor principal: Winckler, Reto
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Publicado: Oxford University Press / USA Mar2021
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