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TY  - CHAP
T2  - Winckler, Television Series as Literature
SP  - 313-31
ID  - bbbo897
T1  - "Shakespearean Sitcom: Upstart Crow, Shakespeare's Plays and the Problem of Literature on Television"
AU  - Winckler, Reto
PY  - 2021
DA  - 2021
LA  - English
AB  - Argues that in the sitcom Upstart Crow (BBC Two, q.v.), Ben Elton positions Shakespeare's character as a working-class hero, playing with the high culture/literary divide of Shakespeare's plays and low culture status of sitcoms. Suggests Elton's writing, too, is "a work of literature."
ER  -