Yassified Shakespeare

Trevor Boffone is Lecturer in the Women’s, Gender & Sexuality Studies Program at the University of Houston, USA. His work using TikTok with his students has been featured on Good Morning America, Inside Edition, and Access Hollywood. He is the author of TikTok Broadway: Musical Theatre Fandom in the Digital Age (2024), Social Media in Musical Theatre (Methuen Drama, 2023), Renegades: Digital Dance Cultures from Dubsmash to TikTok (2021), andeditor of TikTok Cultures in the United States (2022).Danielle Rosvally is Assistant Professor in the Department of Theatre and Dance, University at Buffalo, USA. She is the author of Theatres of Value: Buying and Selling Shakespeare in New York's Nineteenth Century (2024). She is the co-editor of Early Modern Liveness: Mediating Presence in Text, Stage, and Screen (Arden Shakespeare, 2023), and Revenge is Mad Hard: Fat Ham and the Question of Cultural Reclamation (Forthcoming).

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsIntroduction: Shakespeare Ain’t no DragChapter One. Beating Face: Cultural Capital, Appropriation, and Drag HerstoryChapter Two. Good Luck and Don’t Fuck it Up: Shakespearean Queens on the Small ScreenChapter Three. It’s Hard to be the Bard: Campified Performance of Shakespeare-the-author on BroadwayChapter Four. Big, Black, and Queer: Fat Ham as Mediated Theatre in the Age of Miss RonaChapter Five. Let your Freak Flag Fly: The Search for a Queer Utopia on ShakesTokChapter Six. Brush up Thy Codpiece: Being Shakespeare at the Renaissance FaireConclusion. Revenge of the Queens: Dancing Kevin Bacon and the Fight for Basic Drag RightsNotesBibliographyIndex

This exhilarating tour of meme, yass, RuPaul and drag embraces Shakespearean postmodernity in all its inauthentic authenticity. The analysis is both cool and geeky, learned and excitable. Your students - and you - will love its smart, generous articulation of a queer Shakespearean joy: ta-da!