{"product_id":"shakespeare-and-seriality-page-stage-screen-9781350437265","title":"Shakespeare and Seriality: Page, Stage, Screen","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEncompassing a wide variety of genres, media and art forms across a broad historical scope, this open access book identifies central strategies of serialization in Shakespeare's plays and their adaptations.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Beginning with an introduction that theorizes the method of reading Shakespeare serially on page, stage and screen, the first section investigates Shakespeare himself as a serial writer and serial rewritings of Shakespeare by Joyce and Beckett. \u003ci\u003eShakespeare and Seriality\u003c\/i\u003e then moves to a series of case studies of performative seriality from the early modern stage to theatre, film and ballet in the 20th and 21st centuries. It culminates in the analysis of adaptations of Shakespeare in complex TV series, including \u003ci\u003eSuccession\u003c\/i\u003e, the postapocalyptic series \u003ci\u003eStation Eleven\u003c\/i\u003e and the cosy crime series \u003ci\u003eShakespeare and Hathaway\u003c\/i\u003e. This book investigates Shakespeare's seriality from various theoretical perspectives and through multiple methods, including gender and queer theory, ecocriticism, memory and heritage studies, psychoanalysis, empathy studies and fandom studies, reception history and theatre history. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eExamining serial reading as a method of establishing intertextual and intermedial links, this volume contributes to recent developments in adaptation studies including the debate between Shakespeare and 'not-Shakespeare'. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by the Centre of Cultural Inquiry (ZKF) and the Publication Fund of the University of Konstanz.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eElisabeth Bronfen \u003c\/b\u003eis Professor Emerita of English and American Studies at the University of Zurich, Switzerland and Global Distinguished Professor at NYU. She is the author of several books including \u003ci\u003eSerial Shakespeare. An Infinite Variety of Appropriations in American T.V. Drama\u003c\/i\u003e (2020), \u003ci\u003eNight Passages. Philosophy, Literature, and Film\u003c\/i\u003e (2013) and \u003ci\u003eCrossmappings. On Visual Culture\u003c\/i\u003e (2018). \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eChristina Wald \u003c\/b\u003eis 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\u003ci\u003e Shakespeare's Serial Returns in\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eComplex TV \u003c\/i\u003e(2020). Her work has appeared in journals including \u003ci\u003eShakespeare Survey\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eShakespeare\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eShakespeare Bulletin, Modern Drama, Adaptation, Anglia, \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Journal of Commonwealth Literature\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eClassical Receptions Journal\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Arden Shakespeare","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51453963501842,"sku":"9781350437265","price":120.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_3a12160b-7c7b-44b8-9254-ef6fb86ab1b1.jpg?v=1751987473","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/shakespeare-and-seriality-page-stage-screen-9781350437265","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}