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Shakespeare and Covid Drama in This England (Winterbottom, 2022)

dc.contributor.authorRasmus, Agnieszka
dc.date.accessioned2024-09-18T11:13:55Z
dc.date.available2024-09-18T11:13:55Z
dc.date.issued2024-09-18
dc.identifier.issn2083-8530
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11089/53203
dc.description.abstractThis article considers the significance of different Shakespearean allusions in a political docudrama miniseries This England (2022), directed for Sky by Michael Winterbottom and scripted by Winterbottom and Kieron Quirke. The action focuses on the first crucial months in England after the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic, offering a panoramic view of the nation under duress as a newly formed government, with Boris Johnson at its helm, mishandles the crisis. The article seeks to explain the presence of multiple Shakespearean references, from the title alone, through numerous direct quotations to the casting of Kenneth Branagh as Johnson. Shakespearean traces play a pivotal, though confusing, role as they both critique the actions of the government and its leader by offering an ironic framing device while increasing the viewer’s sympathy for its central protagonist via the presence of a Shakespearean celebrity.en
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherWydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiegopl
dc.relation.ispartofseriesMulticultural Shakespeare: Translation, Appropriation and Performance;44en
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
dc.subjectShakespeareen
dc.subjectadaptationen
dc.subjectBranaghen
dc.subjectCoviden
dc.subjectRichard IIen
dc.subjectJohnsonen
dc.subjectThis Englanden
dc.subjectcastingen
dc.subjectreceptionen
dc.subjectEnglishpl
dc.titleShakespeare and Covid Drama in This England (Winterbottom, 2022)en
dc.typeArticle
dc.page.number149-164
dc.contributor.authorAffiliationUniversity of Lodz, Polanden
dc.identifier.eissn2300-7605
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dc.contributor.authorEmailagnieszka.rasmus@uni.lodz.pl
dc.identifier.doi10.18778/2083-8530.29.09
dc.relation.volume29


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