SHAKESPEARE’S HAMLET IN AN ERA OF TEXTUAL EXHAUSTION

Sonya Freeman Loftis is an Associate Professor of English at Morehouse College. Allison Kellar is an Assistant Professor of English and Director of Honors at Wingate University. Lisa Ulevich received her Ph.D. from Georgia State University in 2016. Her research interests include the poetics of allusion, narrative theory, and the mediation of identity through poetic and other formal structures.

Acknowledgments

Notes on Contributors

Chapter 1. Introduction: Post-Hamlet

Sonya Freeman Loftis, Allison Kellar, and Lisa Ulevich

Section I: Post-Hamlet Appropriations

Chapter 2. Posthuman Hamlets: Ghosts in the Machine

Todd Andrew Borlik

Chapter 3. Or Not to Be: Dancing Beyond Hamlet in Christopher Wheeldon’s Misericordes/Elsinore

Elizabeth Klett

Chapter 4. "It’s the Opheliac in me": Ophelia, Emilie Autumn, and the role of Hamlet in Discussing Mental Disability

Chloe Owen

Chapter 5. "I the matter will reword": The Ghost of Hamlet in Translation

Jim Casey

Chapter 6. Locating Hamlet in Kashmir: Haider, Terrorism, and Shakespearean Transmission

Amrita Sen

Section II: Post-Hamlet Performances

Chapter 7. "Denmark is a Prison": Hamlet for Inclusive and Incarcerated Audiences

Sheila T. Cavanagh

Chapter 8. Revisionist Q1 and the Poetics of Alternatives: Vindicating Hamlet’s "Bad" Quarto on Page and Stage in Japan and Beyond

Yi-Hsin Hsu

Chapter 9. "Poem Unlimited, Space Unlimited": The Case of the Naked Hamlet

Adam Sheaffer

Section III: Post-Hamlet Classrooms

Chapter 10. After Words: Hamlet’s Unfinished Business in the Liberal Arts Classroom

Deneen Senasi

Chapter 11. "Read freely, my dear": Education and Agency in Lisa Klein’s Ophelia

Victoria R. Farmer

Chapter 12. To Relate or Not to Relate: Questioning the Pedagogical Value of Relatable Hamlet

Erin M. Presley

Section IV: Post-Hamlet Post-Script

Chapter 13. DIE-JESTING stURNe’s BURIALLs: Publication, Plagiarism, Pseudonymity, Pseudography, Cenography, Palimpsestuosity, Posthumography, and the Propriety or Pathos of Posterity

Richard Burt

Index