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TY  - CHAP
T2  - Bronfen, Shakespeare and Seriality: Page, Stage, Screen
SP  - 172-92
ID  - bbbo1002
T1  - "'Is this the promised end?': Afterwards, Airflows, and Shakespearean Dissonant Repetitions in HBO's Succession (2018-23)"
AU  - O'Neill, Stephen
PY  - 2025
DA  - 2025
KW  - adaptation studies
LA  - English
AB  - Positions HBO's television show Succession as an adaptation of King Lear, tracing the series' Shakespearean adaptations and allusions. Considers audience reception of Succession as Shakespearean as registered in memes. Suggests that Succession "invokes white, cis male (Shakespearean) fathers with the potential to critique them but finds that it cannot escape this mode of (Shakespearean) masculinity"; explores show's presentation of Lear's themes in our moment of climate change crisis.
ER  -