The Arden Research Handbook of Shakespeare and Adaptation

by Diana E. Henderson (Editor), Stephen O'Neill (Editor)

Overview

The Arden Research Handbook of Shakespeare and Adaptation is the first comprehensive reference resource to explore the dynamics of adapted Shakespeare across a range of media forms. The volume maps the field of Shakespeare adaptation studies, identifying theories of adaptation, their application in practice, and the methodologies that underpin them. It considers how adaptation is a key driver of Shakespeare's ongoing vitality in the contemporary world as Shakespeare is encountered through novels, films, television, and internet culture. It investigates current research and points towards future lines of inquiry for students, researchers and practitioners of Shakespeare adaptation.

The opening section on research methods and problems considers definitions of adaptation. A central section develops these theoretical concerns through a series of case studies that move across a range of genres, media forms, and locations to ask not only how Shakespeare is variously transfigured, hybridised and valorised through adaptational play, but also how adaptations produce interpretive communities, and within these potentially new literacies, modes of engagement, and sensory pleasures. The Handbook devotes separate chapters to artists and practitioners of Shakespeare adaptation, including novelists, dramatists and YouTube vloggers, and thus provides a uniquely detailed insight for the reader into the creative impulses and energies at work in adapted Shakespeare. The Handbook establishes the conceptual parameters of the field through detailed, practical resources that will aid the specialist and non-specialist reader alike, including an A-Z of key terms in Shakespeare adaptation studies, a chronology of the field, a guide to research resources, and an annotated bibliography.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781350110304
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	06/02/2022
Series:	The Arden Shakespeare Handbooks
Pages:	432
Product dimensions:	6.40(w) x 9.45(h) x 1.35(d)

About the Author

Diana E. Henderson is the Arthur J. Connor Professor of Literature at MIT, USA. She teaches, publishes and edits widely in the fields of Shakespeare, media studies and early modern studies, and is a dramaturg, designer of online educational modules and documentary producer.

Stephen O'Neill is Associate Professor in English and Shakespeare Studies at Maynooth University, Ireland. He has published widely on adapted Shakespeare, especially in digital cultures.

Table of Contents

Notes on Contributors
List of Illustrations
1. Introduction
Diana E. Henderson and Stephen O'Neill

2. Research Methods and Problems
2.1 Shakespeare as Adaptor
Emma Smith (University of Oxford, UK)
2.2 Shakespeare and Adaptation Theory: Unfinished Business
Douglas M. Lanier (University of New Hampshire, USA)
2.3 What is Shakespeare Adaptation? Why Pericles? Why Cloud? Why Now?
Julie Sanders (Newcastle University, UK)


3. Current Research and Issues

Histories and Politics of Adaptation

3.1 Politics, Adaptation, Macbeth
William C. Carroll (Boston University, USA)

3.2 Animating an Archive of Black Performance:
Swing, William Alexander Brown,
and The African Company Presents 'Richard III'
Joyce Green MacDonald (University of Kentucky, USA)

3.3 'Does anyone know another text?'
Post-Migratory Othello Adaptations on the German-Speaking Stage
Sabine Schülting (Freie Universität Berlin, Germany)

3.4 Japanese Novelizations of Shakespeare's Hamlet and Macbeth:
the culture of hon'an as adaptational practice
Yukari Yoshihara (University of Tsukuba, Japan)

Shakespeare in Parts

3.5 Shakespeare Live! and the Commemorative Gala Revue:
Rhetoric, Festivity and Fragmented Adaptation
Ailsa Grant Ferguson (University of Brighton, UK)

3.6 'What burgeons in the memory…':
Transgression, Culture and Canon in Postmodern Adaptations of the Sonnets
Rui Carvalho Homem (University of Porto, Portugal)

3.7 'Play On', or the Memeing of Shakespeare:
Adaptation and Internet Culture
Anna Blackwell (De Montfort University, UK)

3.8 Bollywood Gertrudes and Global Shakespeares
Varsha Panjwani (NYU, London, UK)

Media Lenses and Digital Cultures

3.9 Screening Dreamy LA: Reading Genre in Casey Wilder Mott's Hollywood
A Midsummer Night's Dream (2018)
Melissa Croteau (California Baptist University, USA)

3.10 Televisual Adaptation of Shakespeare in a Multi-Platform Age
Susanne Greenhalgh (University of Roehampton, UK)

3.11 On Location in Asian Shakespeare Stage Adaptations
Yong Li Lan (National University of Singapore, Singapore)

3.12 “And We Will Ship Him Hence”:
The Case for Shakespeare Fan Studies
Valerie M. Fazel (Arizona State University, USA) and Louise Geddes (Adelphi University, USA)


4. New Directions

4.1 Reduce, Rewrite, Recycle:
Adapting A Midsummer Night's Dream for Yosemite
Katherine Steele Brokaw and Paul Prescott (University of California, USA)

4.2 Hamlet in the Age of Algorithmic Production
Annie Dorsen (Independent Scholar interviewed by Miriam Felton-Dansky (Bard College, USA)

4.3 A King Lear Sutra
Preti Taneja (Newcastle University, USA)

5. Resources
Vanessa I. Corredera (Andrews University, USA)

6. Annotated Bibliography
Kavita Mudan Finn (George Washington University, USA)

7. Index

Editorial Reviews

“Featuring a breath-taking array of examples and interventions, The Arden Research Handbook of Shakespeare and Adaptation is a stellar accomplishment. Embracing the full gamut of forms of adaptation, it ranges widely over theatre, poetry, film, fiction, television, and digital/media platforms, mapping a multiplicity of venues and celebrating the vitality of Shakespeare as a catalysing force. Context- and culture-specific, the case-studies offer a range of entry points into the field, whether through discussions of method, analyses of ideology, prioritisation of authorial voice or the ignition of global conversations. Crucially, as the intersecting chapters unfold, we are encouraged to participate in debate and reflect on Shakespeare's past, present and future iterations. The generous provision of resources (sites and tools) is a particularly attractive feature. Above all, this is a Handbook that showcases the value of adaptation as practice and object of scholarly enquiry. As such, it is refreshing, revealing, and abundantly creative – indispensable.” —Mark Thornton Burnett, Queen's University Belfast, UK

“This handbook reframes the subject of Shakespeare and Adaptation for a new generation of scholars. It combines what the editors call a “'big tent' vision of Shakespeare adaptation studies” with sharp focus on individual case studies, theoretical problems and themes that illuminate the range and vitality of Shakespeare-inspired adaptations. Leaving classificatory concerns behind, the volume focuses on work concerned with intermediality and appropriation, drawing additional critical energy from translation studies. This is a book that will inspire and guide a new generation of adaptation scholars interested in global challenges, social justice and how to do new things with Shakespeare.” —Pascale Aebischer, University of Exeter, UK

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