Shakespeare and Seriality

Elisabeth Bronfen is Professor of English and American Studies at the University of Zurich, Switzerland. She is the author of several books including Serial Shakespeare. An Infinite Variety of Appropriations in American T.V. Drama (2020), Night Passages. Philosophy, Literature, and Film (2013) and Crossmappings. On Visual Culture (2018). Christina Wald is Professor of English Literature and Director of the Centre for Cultural Inquiry at the University of Konstanz, Germany. She is the author of several books including Shakespeare’s Serial Returns in Complex TV (2020). Her work has appeared in journals including Shakespeare Survey, Shakespeare, Shakespeare Bulletin, Modern Drama, Adaptation, Anglia, The Journal of Commonwealth Literature and Classical Receptions Journal.

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Introduction: Theorizing Shakespeare's Seriality, Elisabeth Bronfen (University of Zurich, Switzerland) and Christina Wald (University of Konstanz, Germany)

I. Reading Shakespeare Serially: Shakespeare as a Serial Writer & Serial Rewritings of Shakespeare
1. Shakespeare's Serial Secrets, Elisabeth Bronfen (University of Zurich, Switzerland)
2. Shakespeare's Uneven Ends: The First Tetralogy as Historical Series, Carla Baricz (Yale University, USA)
3. The Desdemona effect: Empathy, retelling and seriality in Shakespeare’s Othello, Aleida Assmann (University of Konstanz, Germany)
4. Shakespeare's Serial Legacies: Joyce and Beckett, Claudia Olk (Ludwig Maximilians University, Germany)

II. Performing Shakespeare Serially: Theatrical Serialization Effects
5. Falstaff, again: Configurations of Serial Memory in Early Modern Culture, Isabel Karremann (University of Zurich, Switzerland)
6. "Play it Again, Antony!": Performing Antony and Cleopatra as Julius Caesar's Sequel on Stage and Screen, Sarah Hatchuel (Université Paul Valéry, France)
7. "And they dance": Queering Shakespeare through Balletic Seriality, Jonas Kellermann (University of Konstanz, Germany)

III. Televising Shakespeare Serially: Shakespeare and complex TV Series
8. ‘Is this the promised end?’: Afterwards, airflows, and Shakespearean dissonant repetitions in HBO’s Succession (2018-2023), Stephen O'Neill (Maynooth University, Republic of Ireland)
9. The Poacher Poached, or a Serial Repurposing of the Bard in Shakespeare & Hathaway: Private Investigators, Kinga Földváry (Pázmány Péter Catholic University, Hungary)
10. Serial Shakespeare after the end of the world: From repetition compulsions to the romance of recycling in Station Eleven, Christina Wald (University of Konstanz, Germany)

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