{"title":"Pop-splat, Ian Martin : book reviews","authors":"T. Jaffery","doi":"10.4314/SISA.V22I1.71897","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"According to the acknowledgements page, Ian Martin's self-published novella Pop-Splat \"is a contemporary take on Shakespeare's Hamlet\"; and, according to the blurb on the back cover, the author \"looks at today's South Africa through cynical eyes and uses his unique brand of sick humour to satirize a sick society\".","PeriodicalId":334648,"journal":{"name":"Shakespeare in Southern Africa","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2011-11-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Shakespeare in Southern Africa","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.4314/SISA.V22I1.71897","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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According to the acknowledgements page, Ian Martin's self-published novella Pop-Splat "is a contemporary take on Shakespeare's Hamlet"; and, according to the blurb on the back cover, the author "looks at today's South Africa through cynical eyes and uses his unique brand of sick humour to satirize a sick society".