By connecting Shakespeare's language to the stunning artwork that
depicted the end of the world, this study provides not only
provides a new reading of Shakespeare but illustrates how
apocalyptic art continues to influence popular culture today.
Drawing on extant examples of medieval imagery, Roger Christofides
uses poststructuralist and psychoanalytic accounts of how language
works to shed new light on our understanding of Hamlet, Othello,
Macbeth, and King Lear. He then links Shakespeare's dependence on
his audience to appreciate the allusions made to the religious
paintings to the present day. For instance, popular television
series like Battlestar Galactica, seminal horror movies such as An
American Werewolf in London and Carrie and recent novels like
Cormac McCarthy's The Road. All draw on imagery that can be traced
directly back to the depictions of the Doom, an indication of the
cultural power these vivid imaginings of the end of the world have
in Shakespeare's day and now.
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