Series: Shakespeare and Adaptation

How can we tune into the ecological dynamics of Shakespeare’s plays? How can we adapt those plays to address current environmental crises? This is the first book to fuse Shakespearean ecocriticism with adaptation studies. It serves as a comprehensive critical and contextual resource for students, teachers, and practitioners embarking on an in-depth exploration of ecological approaches to Shakespeare and adaptation....

The collective trauma of the COVID-19 pandemic. Digital shaming. Violence against women. Sexual bullying. Racial slurs and injustice. These are just some of the problems faced by today’s young adults. Liberating Shakespeare explores how adaptations of Shakespeare’s plays can be used to empower young audiences by addressing issues of oppression, trauma, and resistance. Showcasing a wide variety of approaches to...

This edited collection offers the first in-depth analysis and sourcebook for Lockdown Shakespeare. It brings together scholars of stage, screen, early modern and adaptation studies to examine the work that emerged during the Covid-19 pandemic and considers issues of form, liveness, reception, presence, and community. Interviews with theatre makers and artists illuminate the challenges and benefits of creating new work...

From their inception, ‘low culture’ comics have intersected with the ‘high culture’ of Shakespeare. This is the first book-length collection dedicated entirely to the exploration of this collision. Its chapters illuminate the ways in which different texts, time periods, politics, authors, media, approaches and forms interact. Ranging from Classic Comics to Marvel, from tebeo to manga, from independent to mainstream...