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This collection of essays brings together innovative scholarship on Shakespeare's afterlives in tribute to Christy Desmet. Contributors explore the production and consumption of Shakespeare in acts of adaptation and appropriation across a range of performance topics, from book history to the novel to television, cinema, and digital media.
List of contents
Robert Sawyer, Foreword
Darlena Ciraulo and Matthew Kozusko, "Introduction"
Part I: Past
Jonathan Baldo, "What's in a Game?: Handy-Dandy, War, and Foreign Relations in King Lear"
Anne Williams, "Strawberry Hill: The House that Hamlet Built"
Katherine Scheil, "What's Past is Prologue: Shakespeare the Romantic"
Part II: Present
Darlena Ciraulo, "Shakespeare's Bust and the 1960s Batman TV Show"
Peter Holland, "On the Shakespeare Trail"
Richard Finkelstein, "Shakespeare in the Dorm: The Rhetoric of Character in YouTube Shakespeare"
Matt Kozusko, "Why are Shakespeare's Characters so 'Relatable'?"
Part III: Future
Lisa S. Starks, "Levinas, Jessica, and Memory in Productions of The Merchant of Venice"
Alexa Alice Joubin, "Transgender Theory and Global Shakespeare
Stephen O'Neill, "Quoting Machines: Shakespearean things in and beyond HBO's Westworld"
Sharon O'Dair, "On Character, Character Criticism, and The King is Alive: For Christy Desmet"
Sujata Iyengar, Afterword
About the author
Edited by Darlena Ciraulo; Matthew Kozusko and Robert Sawyer - Contributions by Jonathan Baldo; Darlena Ciraulo; Richard Finkelstein; Peter Holland; Alexa Alice Joubin; Matthew Kozusko; Stephen O'Neill; Robert Sawyer; Katherine West Scheil; Lisa S. Starks
Summary
This collection of essays brings together innovative scholarship on Shakespeare’s afterlives in tribute to Christy Desmet. Contributors explore the production and consumption of Shakespeare in acts of adaptation and appropriation across a range of performance topics, from book history to the novel to television, cinema, and digital media.
