"Who Calls Me Villain?" Blank Verse and the Black Hat.

Focuses on the television series `Star Trek: The Next Generation's' use of quotations from the villains in William Shakespeare's works to establish a character's status as a villain. Presentation of Shakespeare as a universal cultural resource; Deliberate invocation of parallels between the film's...

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Published in:Extrapolation (Kent State University Press) Vol. 36; no. 1; pp. 18 - 28
Main Author: Buhler, Stephen M.
Format: Literary Criticism
Published: Kent State University Press Spring95
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Summary:Focuses on the television series `Star Trek: The Next Generation's' use of quotations from the villains in William Shakespeare's works to establish a character's status as a villain. Presentation of Shakespeare as a universal cultural resource; Deliberate invocation of parallels between the film's futuristic events and the decline of the Soviet Union.