Shakespeare and science fiction /
In Shakespeare and Science Fiction Sarah Annes Brown investigates why so many science fiction writers have turned to Shakespeare when imagining humanity's future. He and his works become a kind of touchstone for the species in much science fiction, both transcending and exemplifying what it mea...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Liverpool :
Liverpool University Press,
2024.
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| Edition: | Paperback edition. |
| Series: | Liverpool science fiction texts and studies ;
71. |
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Table of Contents:
- 1. The whirligig of time' : Shakespeare and time travel
- 2. `The self was not the same' : alternative Shakespeares
- 3. `Bounded in a nutshell' : dystopian Shakespeares
- 4. `King of infinite space' : new worlds and alien species
- 5. `Something rich and strange' : Prospero's magic and science fiction
- 6. `Whilst this machine is to him' : Shakespeare and posthuman identity
- 7. `Is this the promised end?' : Shakespeare and post-apocalyptic science fiction.