Tumblr crosspost (23 September 2019)
Oct. 27th, 2019 01:29 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
anghraineAn anon at Tumblr asked:
Hi! I read your post on Pride and Prejudice and Much Ado About Nothing. And... are you saying P&P is Shakespeare fanfiction?
I replied:
Ah, no. It’s …
Hm. Okay. The thing is, I don’t really subscribe to the idea that ‘derivative work’ and ‘fanwork’ are interchangeable concepts. I do think it’s important to point out that fanworks are not unique in deriving their material from other sources, yet are often treated as uniquely illegitimate for doing so. But for me, fanfiction is bound up in modern fandom. It’s a subcategory of “writing that uses some characters/relationships/etc the author didn’t invent,” not the whole category.
IMO the category as a whole is just adaptation. And that post was totally saying that P&P is a loose adaptation of Shakespeare :)
Hi! I read your post on Pride and Prejudice and Much Ado About Nothing. And... are you saying P&P is Shakespeare fanfiction?
I replied:
Ah, no. It’s …
Hm. Okay. The thing is, I don’t really subscribe to the idea that ‘derivative work’ and ‘fanwork’ are interchangeable concepts. I do think it’s important to point out that fanworks are not unique in deriving their material from other sources, yet are often treated as uniquely illegitimate for doing so. But for me, fanfiction is bound up in modern fandom. It’s a subcategory of “writing that uses some characters/relationships/etc the author didn’t invent,” not the whole category.
IMO the category as a whole is just adaptation. And that post was totally saying that P&P is a loose adaptation of Shakespeare :)