Shakespeare and the Modern Novel

Graham Holderness is the author of numerous books on literary criticism, theory, and scholarship, as well as fiction, poetry, and drama. His most recent works include The Faith of William Shakespeare (Lion Books, 2016), Tales from Shakespeare: Creative Collisions (Cambridge University Press, 2014), Re-writing Jesus: Christ in 20th Century Fiction and Film (Bloomsbury, November 2014), and the historical fantasy novel Black and Deep Desires: William Shakespeare Vampire Hunter (Top Hat Books, 2015).

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Introduction: Shakespeare and the Modern Novel



Chapter 1. ‘All the world’s a [post-apocalyptic] stage’: The Future of Shakespeare in Emily St. John Mandel’s Station Eleven

Charles Conaway



Chapter 2. Ian McEwan Celebrates Shakespeare: Hamlet in a Nutshell

Elena Bandín and Elisa González



Chapter 3. Modernising Misogyny in Shakespeare’s Shrew

Natalie K. Eschenbaum



Chapter 4. Almost Shakespeare – But Not Quite

Keith Jones



Chapter 5. Canon Fodder and Conscripted Genres: The Hogarth Project and the Modern Shakespeare Novel

Laurie E. Osborne



Chapter 6. Loving Shakespeare: Anne Tyler’s Vinegar Girl and the Hogarth Shakespeare Project

Elizabeth Rivlin



Chapter 7. Millennial Dark Ladies

Katherine Scheil



Chapter 8. Flights of Fancy and the Dissolution of Shakespearean Space-Time in Angela Carter’s Nights at the Circus

Kate Myers



Chapter 9. Hamlet’s Displacement as a Recurrent Case in Cather’s A Lost Lady and Al Halaby’s Once in a Promised Land

Tareq Zuhair



Chapter 10. Susan Abulhawa’s Appropriation of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet

Yousef Abu Amrieh