Narco-Capitalist Macbeths in TV Series: Shakespeare’s Archive in The Wire (David Simon, 2002–2008) and Breaking Bad (Vince Gilligan, 2008–2013)

Narco-Capitalist Macbeths in TV Series: Shakespeare’s Archive in The Wire (David Simon, 2002–2008) and Breaking Bad (Vince Gilligan, 2008–2013)

I will tackle serial appropriations of Shakespeare’s Macbeth in The Wire (David Simon, 2002–2008) and Breaking Bad (Vince Gilligan, 2008–2013). Both complex TV series recast Macbeth in the context of narcocapitalism. Rather than constituting an alternative to mainstream capitalism, narco-capitalism...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Víctor Huertas
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidad de Alicante 2024-01-01
Series:Revista Alicantina de Estudios Ingleses
Subjects:
narco-capitalism
archive
macbeth
reenactment
trace
sources
source text
adaptation
transmedia
Online Access:https://raei.ua.es/article/view/25173

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