BBC's cult classic TV series Doctor Who's season 3 episode 2 titled "The Shakespeare Code" draws a canonical link from William Shakespeare's plays to fantasy fiction and science fiction to the extent of making the bard ...

This chapter discusses how Margaret Atwood's The Penelopiad as a continuation of Homer's The Odyssey uses gender as a means to subvert the male-forged myths of masculinity and femininity and offers Helen, Penelope, and the ...

Buffy the Vampire Slayer is a seven-season TV series broadcasted between 1997-2003 and produced by Joss Whedon as a sequel to the film by the same title produced in 1992. It tells the adventures of Buffy, a high school ...

Margaret Atwood’s The Penelopiad, a retelling of Homer’s The Odyssey, is narrated by Penelope and the twelve maids. It aims at dislodging the traditional myth, which presents Penelope as the archetype of faithful and patient ...

This paper discusses the reception of the Weird Sisters of William Shakespeare's Macbeth (1606) in Orson Welles's Macbeth (1948) and Akira Kurosawa's Throne of Blood (1957) as supernatural beings with complete control over ...