The Arden Research Handbook of Shakespeare and Adaptation

Diana E. Henderson is the Arthur J. Conner 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.

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