Performing Shakespearean Appropriations

This collection of essays brings together innovative scholarship on Shakespeare’s afterlives in tribute to Christy Desmet. Contributors explore the production and consumption of Shakespeare in acts of adaptation and appropriation across a range of performance topics, from book history to the novel to television, cinema, and digital media.

Matthew Kozusko is professor of English at Ursinus College. Darlena Ciraulo is professor of English at the University of Central Missouri. Robert Sawyer is professor of English at East Tennessee State University.

Robert Sawyer, Foreword Darlena Ciraulo and Matthew Kozusko, "Introduction" Part I: Past Jonathan Baldo, "What's in a Game?: Handy-Dandy, War, and Foreign Relations in King Lear" Anne Williams, "Strawberry Hill: The House that Hamlet Built" Katherine Scheil, "What's Past is Prologue: Shakespeare the Romantic" Part II: Present Darlena Ciraulo, "Shakespeare's Bust and the 1960s Batman TV Show" Peter Holland, "On the Shakespeare Trail" Richard Finkelstein, "Shakespeare in the Dorm: The Rhetoric of Character in YouTube Shakespeare" Matt Kozusko, "Why are Shakespeare's Characters so 'Relatable'?" Part III: Future Lisa S. Starks, "Levinas, Jessica, and Memory in Productions of The Merchant of Venice" Alexa Alice Joubin, "Transgender Theory and Global Shakespeare Stephen O'Neill, "Quoting Machines: Shakespearean things in and beyond HBO's Westworld" Sharon O'Dair, "On Character, Character Criticism, and The King is Alive: For Christy Desmet" Sujata Iyengar, Afterword