Elisabeth Bronfen is Professor of English and American Studies at the University of Zurich, Switzerland. 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 Shakespeare's 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.

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 Centre of Cultural Inquiry (ZKF) and the Publication Fund of the University of Konstanz.

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: Fiction as a Drug in 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. "If that happens in Hamlet, I don't care": Succession as Adaptation Theory, or Serial TV's selective Shakespeareanisms, 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: Station 11, Christina Wald (University of Konstanz, Germany)
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