Provider: World Shakespeare Bibliography https://www.worldshakesbib.org Database: WSB Content: text/plain; charset="utf-8" TY - JOUR VL - 42 IS - 1 T2 - Shakespeare Bulletin SP - 5-26 ID - bbbo463 T1 - "The Fallout of Shakespeare: Playing and Video Game Theater"  AU - Smith, Emily Louisa PY - 2024 DA - 2026 DO - 10.1353/shb.2024.a928402 LA - English AB - Analyzes digital performances of Shakespeare in Fallout 76 video game world by the Wasteland Theatre Company (founded by Northern Harvest), including Macbeth (2021), Romeo and Juliet (2022), Midsummer Night’s Dream (2022), Coriolanus (November 2023), and two “Sonnet Festivals” in 2022. Argues that performing Shakespeare in the digital, imagined, post-nuclear-holocaust world of Fallout 76 invites reflection both on the nature of text and on the value of culture in an imagined dystopia. English summary, 5. ER -