"The Thing Itself" Paratexts and New Shakespeare Genealogies

Valerie M. Fazel; Louise Geddes

doi:10.4324/9780429289507-6

"The Thing Itself" Paratexts and New Shakespeare Genealogies

Valerie M. Fazel Louise Geddes

The Shakespeare Multiverse, pp.75-113

Routledge Studies in Shakespeare, Routledge

01/01/2022

: https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429289507-6

paratextual assemblage

fan rituals

Shakespeare

Chapter 2 is concerned with multiverse expansion through paratextual assemblage. Paratexts, this chapter argues, are essential fragments by which Shakespeare readings are created. Rather than reading paratexts as introductory matter that draws attention to textual meaning, this chapter suggests that paratexts, which can accommodate material objects such as theater posters, as well as fan rituals, are vibrant matter, loaded with potentiality. The cyborg reader continuously inventories and activates paratexts that draw their attention and assemble them, building backwards to create original Shakespeares.

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: "The Thing Itself" Paratexts and New Shakespeare Genealogies
: Valerie M. Fazel - Arizona State University
Louise Geddes - Adelphi University
: V M Fazel (Editor)
L Geddes (Editor)
: The Shakespeare Multiverse, pp.75-113
: Routledge Studies in Shakespeare
: Routledge; ABINGDON
: 39
: College of Arts and Sciences; Adelphi University; English
: English
: Book chapter
: https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429289507-6
: 991004406495906266