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“An Improbable Fiction”: How Fans Rewrite Shakespeare

Bitely, Amelia R.
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=marhonors1210350662

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2008, Bachelor of Arts, Marietta College, English.
This paper explores how fans construct works of fanfiction based on William Shakespeare's plays. Fans situate themselves within the modes of discourse common to online fanfiction communities, and within those modes of discourse, their works serve four primary functions. Writing fanfiction helps to familiarize writers with the content and style of their source texts; it also allows writers to expand upon the events and characters available in these texts; it serves as a medium for subtle critical analysis of texts, which in many ways parallels mainstream literary criticism; and it allows writers to interact with a shared-knowledge community of fanfiction writers and readers.
Joseph Sullivan, PhD (Advisor)
Jeffery Cordell, MFA (Committee Member)
Beverly Hogue, PhD (Committee Member)
89 p.
English literature; Language Arts; Literacy; Literature; Theater
fanfiction; fan fiction; Shakespeare; Shakespeare fans; literary criticism; fandom; Internet; Internet fanfiction; online fanfiction; Shakespeare fanfiction; Shakespeare fan fiction

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  • Bitely, A. R. (2008). “An Improbable Fiction”: How Fans Rewrite Shakespeare [Undergraduate thesis, Marietta College]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=marhonors1210350662

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Bitely, Amelia. “An Improbable Fiction”: How Fans Rewrite Shakespeare. 2008. Marietta College, Undergraduate thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=marhonors1210350662.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Bitely, Amelia. "“An Improbable Fiction”: How Fans Rewrite Shakespeare." Undergraduate thesis, Marietta College, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=marhonors1210350662

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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