The Collected Sonnets of William Shakespeare, Zombie

by William Shakespeare, Chase Pielak

Overview

What if one of literature's greatest poets was actually a zombie, writing in an Elizabethan world teeming with the undead hiding in plain sight? Inviting readers to see the sublime in the looming apocalypse, this book presents all 154 Shakespearean sonnets (with minor alterations transfigured into "zonnets") in their horrifying glory, highlighting transcendent themes of love, death, beauty and feasting on the flesh of the living. Each sonnet portrays a zombie encounter, with accompanying vignettes revealing the struggles of undead life in early modern England. Original illustrations by Anna Pagnucci bring the nightmare to life. Shakespeare will never be the same.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781476631301
Publisher:	McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers
Publication date:	02/27/2018
Series:	Contributions to Zombie Studies
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	154
File size:	9 MB
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Chase Pielak teaches English at Auburn University. Kyle William Bishop is an associate professor of English and film studies and serves as the Honors Program director at Southern Utah University in Cedar City, Utah. He has presented and published on a number of zombie-related texts and has authored two other monographs with McFarland.
Chase Pielak teaches English at Auburn University.

Date of Death:

2018

Place of Birth:

Stratford-upon-Avon, United Kingdom

Place of Death:

Stratford-upon-Avon, United Kingdom

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments deletev
Preface
Origin Story of the Zonnets
Shakespeare’s Undead Introduction:
Life Is Better Now
1. Apocalyptic Beauty
2. Hunger
3. Increase
4. Life’s Better as a Zombie
5. Time
6. Apocalyptic Living
7. Zombaby
8. Survivors
9. Don’t Die Yet
10. Epitaph
11. The Horde
12. Grave Love
13. The Cure
14. Falling Apart
Index