Description: Covering a wide variety of genres and media across a broad historical scope, this book explores seriality in Shakespeare's plays and their adaptations throughout multiple centuries and art forms.
Brief description: Mark Thornton Burnett is Professor of Renaissance Studies at Queen's University Belfast, UK. His books include Shakespeare and World Cinema (2013), 'Hamlet' and World Cinema (2019), Constructing 'Monsters' in Shakespearean Drama and Early Modern Culture (2002) and Filming Shakespeare in the Global Marketplace (2007; 2nd ed. 2012). He is series editor of the Arden Shakespeare series Shakespeare and Adaptation.
Review Quotes:
"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 Shakespeare's 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 Shakespeare's form and meanings." --Ewan Fernie, Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham, UK
"Exploring contemporary Shakespeare on television, in theatres, on film, and even in ballet, the book offers a deep dive into Shakespeare's influence on gender and queer theory, psychoanalysis theatre history and an array of other topics." --Quarto