Shakespeare and Seriality

Encompassing a wide variety of genres and media across a broad historical scope, this open access book explores seriality in Shakespeare's plays and their adaptations throughout multiple centuries and art forms.
Beginning by investigating Shakespeare himself as a serial writer, Shakespeare and Seriality moves to a series of case studies involving literary and dramatic adaptations - such as those by Joyce and Beckett - to the more modern theatrical serializations of his plays. Culminating in the analysis of adaptations of Shakespeare in complex TV series, including HBO's Succession, and the 'post-apocalyptic' Station 11, this book explores Shakespeare's seriality from the perspective of political theory, phenomenology, psychoanalysis and literary and cultural theory.
Spanning multiple time-periods and using a plethora of media tools, this volume utilizes the debate between Shakespeare and 'not-Shakespeare' in adaptation studies to examine serial reading as a method of establishing intertextual and intermedial links. Not only does the volume cover a broad historical scope in its dissection of Shakespeare and the adaptations of his work, it also identifies central strategies of serialization whilst simultaneously applying various theoretical perspectives to them.
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 University of Konstanz.