Dead Famous (novel) belongs to an amateur dramatics society that is starting rehearsals for a performance of Macbeth, one of Coleridge's favourite plays. He desperately wishes to play the lead, but the director wants someone younger to play the lead part. Coleridge's success in solving the murder wins him the part. The idea of Banquo's ghost is Coleridge's method of forcing a confession out of the murderer. The novel is dedicated to the contestants of the first Big Brother series in the UK, the second Big Brother series in the UK and the first Big Brother series in Australia. The book parodies the
Parody same as the post-modernist trope of using historical characters in fiction out of context to provide a metaphoric element. Sometimes the reputation of a parody outlasts the reputation of what is being parodied. For example, "Don Quixote", which mocks the traditional knight errant tales, is much better known than the novel that inspired it, "Amadis de Gaula" (although Amadis is mentioned in the book). Another case is the novel "Shamela" by Henry Fielding (1742), which was a parody of the gloomy epistolary novel "Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded" (1740) by Samuel Richardson. Many of Lewis Carroll's parodies of Victorian didactic verse