"The Fallout of Shakespeare: Playing and Video Game Theater" 
https://www.worldshakesbib.org/entry/bbbo463/
Author:
	Smith, Emily Louisa.
Type:
	Journal Article
Year:
	2024
Publication Information:
	Shakespeare Bulletin 42, no. 1 (2024): 5–26.
DOI:
	10.1353/shb.2024.a928402
Annotation:
	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.
Language:
	English
Persons:
	Harvest, Northern
Tags:
	A Midsummer Night's Dream, Coriolanus, Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet, Scholarship, Criticism, History of Criticism, Sonnets, Stage and Theater History, Theatrical Techniques
WSB Update:
	Summer 2025
WSB Record Number:
	bbbo463