"'Is this the promised end?': Afterwards, Airflows, and Shakespearean Dissonant Repetitions in HBO's Succession (2018-23)"
https://www.worldshakesbib.org/entry/bbbo1002/
Author:
	O'Neill, Stephen.
Type:
	Book Chapter
Year:
	2025
Publication Information:
	Bronfen, Shakespeare and Seriality: Page, Stage, Screen, 172–92. (https://www.bloomsburycollections.com/monograph?docid=b-9781350437296)
:
	Bronfen, Shakespeare and Seriality: Page, Stage, Screen
Annotation:
	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.
Language:
	English
Persons:
	Bronfen, Elisabeth; Wald, Christina
Keywords:
	adaptation studies
Tags:
	Film, Cinema, Television, Radio, King Lear, Scholarship, Criticism, History of Criticism, Shakespeare as Influence
WSB Update:
	Winter 2025
WSB Record Number:
	bbbo1002