Unspeakable ShaXXXspeares is a savvy look at the wide range of adaptations, spin-offs, and citations of Shakespeare's plays in 1990s popular culture. What does it say about our culture when Shakespearean references turn up in television episodes of The Brady Bunch and Gilligan's Island, films such as In and Out and My Own Private Idaho, and hardcore porn adaptations of Hamlet and Romeo and Juliet? Burt reads the reception of these often quite bad replays in relation to contemporary youth culture and the "queering" of Shakespeare.
- ISBN13 9780312226855
- Publish Date 3 December 1999
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition Revised edition
- Format Paperback
- Pages 318
- Language English