Spectral Shakespeares

Maurizio Calbi is Professor of English Literature at the University of Salerno, Italy. He is the author of Approximate Bodies: Gender and Power in Early Modern Drama and Anatomy and has published on Shakespeare and early modern culture, screen adaptations, postcolonial literature, and postcolonial rewritings of Shakespeare.

Introduction: Shakespeare, Spectro-Textuality, Spectro-Mediality
1. The State of the Kitchen: Incorporation and "Animanomaly" in Scotland, PA and the BBC Shakespeare Retold Macbeth
2. Shakespearean Retreats: Spectrality, Survival, and Auto-Immunity in Kristian Levring's The King Is Alive
3. Reiterating Othello: Spectral Media and the Rhetoric of Silence in Alexander Abela's Souli
4. 'This Is My Home, Too': Migration, Spectrality, and Hospitality in Roberta Torre's Sud Side Stori
5. "Shakespeare in the Extreme": Ghosts and Remediation in Alexander Fodor's Hamlet
6. 'Restless Ecstasy': Addiction, Reiteration, and Mediality in Klaus Knoesel's Rave Macbeth
7. 'He speaks...Or Rather...He Tweets': The Specter of the "Original," Media, and 'Media-Crossed' Love in Such Tweet Sorrow