Unspeakable ShaXXXspeares, Revised Edition Queer Theory and American Kiddie Culture

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.

Richard Burt is a professor of English at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He is the coeditor of Shakespeare the Movie.

Preface: My Own Private ShaXXXspeares * Preface to the Paperback Edition: Shaxxxsploitation 2000 * Introduction: Dumb and Dumber Shakespeares: Academic Fantasy, the Electronic Archive, Loser Criticism, and Other Diminished Critical Capacities * The Love That Dare Not Speak Shakespeare’s Name: New Shakesqueer Cinema * Deep Inside William Shakespeare: Pornographic Film and Video "Classics" and the Castrated Gaze * Terminating Shakespeare with Extreme Prejudice: Post-Colonial Cannibalism, Serial Quotation, and the Cinematic Spectacle of 1990s American Cultural Imperialism * When Our Lips Synch Together: The Transvestite Voice, the Virtuoso, Speed and Pumped Up Volume in Some Over-heard Shakespeares * My So-Called Shakespeare: Mourning the Canon in the Age of Post-Patriarchal Multiculturalism, or the Shakespeare Pedagogue as Loser * Notes * Bibliography
Preface: My Own Private ShaXXXspeares * Preface to the Paperback Edition: Shaxxxsploitation 2000 * Introduction: Dumb and Dumber Shakespeares: Academic Fantasy, the Electronic Archive, Loser Criticism, and Other Diminished Critical Capacities * The Love That Dare Not Speak Shakespeare’s Name: New Shakesqueer Cinema * Deep Inside William Shakespeare: Pornographic Film and Video "Classics" and the Castrated Gaze * Terminating Shakespeare with Extreme Prejudice: Post-Colonial Cannibalism, Serial Quotation, and the Cinematic Spectacle of 1990s American Cultural Imperialism * When Our Lips Synch Together: The Transvestite Voice, the Virtuoso, Speed and Pumped Up Volume in Some Over-heard Shakespeares * My So-Called Shakespeare: Mourning the Canon in the Age of Post-Patriarchal Multiculturalism, or the Shakespeare Pedagogue as Loser * Notes * Bibliography