1st Edition
The Shakespeare Multiverse Fandom as Literary Praxis
A Note on Form and Methodology
Multiverse, part one: Ode to Ophelia
Introduction - The Pleasures of Cyborg Reading
Multiverse, part two: The Patient Must Minister To Himself, or, William and the Doctor
Chapter One - The Archontic Multiverse: A Theory of Shakespeare’s Big Bang
Multiverse, part three: Prince’s Shadow
Chapter Two - "The Thing Itself": Paratexts and New Shakespeare Genealogies
Multiverse part four: Four Songs for Lady Macbeth
Chapter Three - Taking out the (Shakespeare) Trash: Illegitimate Knowledge and Shakespeare’s Losers
Multiverse part five: Hamlet’s Buzz
Chapter Four - Your Fave is Problematic: AnteFandom, Anti Fandom, and the Problem of Will
Multiverse part six: The Red Right Hand
Conclusion - Shakespeare and the Cyborg Self
Biography
Valerie M. Fazel currently teaches in the Department of English at Arizona State University, where she earned her Ph.D. She is co-editor of The Shakespeare User: Creative and Critical Appropriations in a Networked Culture (Palgrave MacMillan, 2017) and Variable Objects: Speculative Shakespeare Appropriation (Edinburgh University Press, 2021). Her essay work on Shakespeare and popular appropriation appears in several edited collections and Borrowers and Lenders: A Journal of Shakespeare Appropriation, The Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies Sundial, and Shakespeare.
Louise Geddes is an Associate Professor of English at Adelphi University. She received her Ph.D in English from the CUNY Graduate Center. She is the author of Appropriating Shakespeare: A Cultural History of Pyramus and Thisbe (FDUP, 2017) and is the co-editor of The Shakespeare User: Creative and Critical Appropriations in a Networked Culture (Palgrave MacMillan, 2017) and Variable Objects: Speculative Shakespeare Appropriation (Edinburgh University Press, 2021). Her work has been published in Shakespeare Bulletin, Shakespeare Survey, Medieval and Renaissance Studies in Drama and Interdisciplinary Literary Studies. She is one of the General Editors of Borrowers and Lenders: A Journal of Shakespeare Appropriation.
