"Beginning by investigating Shakespeare as a serial writer, this open access book moves to case studies involving literary and dramatic adaptations, to more modern theatrical serializations of his plays. Culminating in analysis of adaptations of Shakespeare in TV series including Succession and Station 11, this book explores Shakespeare's seriality from the perspective of political theory, phenomenology, psychoanalysis and literary and cultural theory."--
Encompassing 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.
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. Shakespeare and Seriality 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 Succession, the postapocalyptic series Station Eleven and the cosy crime series Shakespeare and Hathaway. 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.
Examining 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'.
The 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.
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This brilliant book shows how Shakespearean drama spirals forward in a process of creative returns. It brings into fresh focus an extraordinary range of material from Shakespeares own artistry to the structures of history, from ballet to Beckett, from comfort television to trauma, apocalypse and the posthuman. The rich range of approaches includes queer theory, theatre history, memory studies and psychoanalysis. But perhaps its most valuable contribution is to define self-consciously serial reading itself as a form of creative interpretation and renewal of Shakespeares form and meanings. * Ewan Fernie, Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham, UK *
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Covering a wide variety of genres and media across a broad historical scope, this book explores seriality in Shakespeares plays and their adaptations throughout multiple centuries and art forms.
List of Illustrations
Notes on Contributors
Acknowledgments
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 Shakespeares
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 HBOs 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)
Index
Elisabeth Bronfen is 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 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 Shakespeares 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.
