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Revenge Is Mad Hard: Fat Ham and the Question of Cultural Reclamation

Revenge Is Mad Hard: Fat Ham and the Question of Cultural Reclamation

Pye, Valerie Clayman
Rosvally, Danielle

Hardcover

Series: Reproducing Shakespeare

Literary CriticismTelevisionFilm Studies

ISBN10: 3031978862
ISBN13: 9783031978869
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: Jan 3 2026
Pages: 292
Weight: 1.16
Height: 0.90 Width: 5.84 Depth: 7.80
Language: English

In April of 2021, a small theatre in Philadelphia took a big risk: The Wilma premiered a new play called Fat Ham by a then-almost-unknown playwright, James Ijames. Fat Ham reconfigures the story of Hamlet through the lens of a family barbeque in the American South. In Ijames' play, Shakespeare's protagonist becomes a fat, queer, Black man named Juicy. Juicy's mother has just married his uncle in the wake of his father's murder and Juicy himself is still dealing with grief about these events and the generational trauma they amplify as he strives for some thread of hope. The play made big waves; Ijames won the 2022 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, and it was nominated for five Tony awards in 2023.

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