Playfulness in Shakespearean Adaptations

1. "Did Shakespeare really write this racy stuff?": Playfulness in Shakespearean Adaptations

Marina Gerzic and Aidan Norrie

Page to Stage / Stage to Page

Marina Gerzic and Aidan Norrie

2. "This great stage of fools": Anachronisms and Mockery in Three Victorian Burlesques of King Lear

Roberta Grandi

3. "Covering the main points": Playing with The Tempest in Margaret Atwood’s Hag-Seed

Miranda Fay Thomas

4. "I wish the bastards dead": Adapting Richard III in Children’s Literature

Marina Gerzic

5. Playing with Genre and Form: The "Magic Art" of Graphic Novel Adaptation in Shakespeare

Chelsea L. Horne

6. When Fictions Collide: Shakespearean Inspiration and Adaptation in Terry Pratchett’s Wyrd Sisters

Sophie Shorland

Practising Shakespeare On Stage and Screen

Marina Gerzic and Aidan Norrie

7. Byte-Size Shakespeare: The Irreverent Play of Shakespeare Republic

Sally McLean

8. An Irreverent richard III redux: [Re]cripping the Crip

Kaite O’Reilly and Phillip Zarrilli

Adapting the Man

Marina Gerzic and Aidan Norrie

9. Bill Begins: The Rise of the Contemporary Shakespeare ‘Origin Story’

Ronan Hatfull

10. William Shakespeare and Elizabeth I: The Special Relationship?

Aidan Norrie

Adapting the Plays

Marina Gerzic and Aidan Norrie

11. Hamlet 2, Shakespeare, and Cruel Optimism

Jennifer Clement

12. Sport, Meritocracy, and Shakespeare

Christian B. Long

13. "What’s in a gnome?": Gender, Intertextuality, and Irreverence in Gnomeo and Juliet

Sonja Kleij

Biography

Marina Gerzic works for the ARC Centre for Excellence for the History of Emotions, the Australian and New Zealand Association for Medieval and Early Modern Studies Inc., and Medieval and Early Modern Studies at The University of Western Australia in both research and administration roles, and is the editorial assistant for the academic journals Parergon and Shakespeare Bulletin. She is the editor, with Aidan Norrie, of From Medievalism to Early-Modernism: Adapting the English Past (Routledge), and has published articles on film and adaptation theory, Shakespeare, pedagogy, cinematic music, cultural studies, science fiction, comics and graphic novels, and children’s literature.

Aidan Norrie is a historian of monarchy, and a Chancellor’s International Scholar in the Centre for the Study of the Renaissance at The University of Warwick. Aidan is the editor, with Marina Gerzic, of From Medievalism to Early-Modernism: Adapting the English Past (Routledge); with Lisa Hopkins, of Women on the Edge in Early Modern Europe (Amsterdam University Press); and, with Mark Houlahan, of New Directions in Early Modern English Drama: Edges, Spaces, Intersections (Medieval Institute Publications). Aidan is currently working on a monograph, Elizabeth I and the Old Testament: Biblical Analogies and Providential Rule, which is forthcoming from Arc Humanities Press.

"From Victorian burlesque to contemporary graphic novels, this collection provides a range of material for the reader interested in Shakespearean adaptation of drama…the range covered in this collection is extensive. Overall, the collection offers thoughtful and wide-ranging new insights into the concepts of play and irreverence in Shakespearean adaptations for readers old and new."

-- Jennifer E. Nicholson, The University of Sydney, Parergon 38.2 (2021)

Playfulness in Shakespearean Adaptations introduces a range of both mediums and methods of adaptation, many of which have received relatively little critical attention… Overall, the book successfully provides a wide-ranging overview of the role of play and playfulness in adaptations of Shakespeare, giving examples that vary in scope, period, and medium.

-- Anna Quercia-Thomas, The University of Western Australia, Limina: a Journal of Historical and Cultural Studies 27.2 (2022)