Spectral Shakespeares: Media Adaptations in the Twenty-First Century [Paperback]

Spectral Shakespeares is an illuminating exploration of recent, experimental adaptations of Shakespeare on film, TV, and the web. Drawing on adaptation studies and media theory as well as Jacques Derrida's work, this book argues that these adaptations foreground a cluster of self-reflexive themes - from incorporation to reiteration, from migration to addiction, from silence to survival - that contribute to the redefinition of adaptation, and Shakespearean adaptation in particular, as an unfinished and interminable process. The Shakespeare that emerges from these adaptations is a fragmentary, mediatized, and heterogeneous presence, a spectral Shakespeare that leaves a mark on our contemporary mediascape.

Introduction: Shakespeare, Spectro-Textuality, Spectro-Mediality
1. The State of the Kitchen: Incorporation and "Animanomaly" in Scotland, PA and the BBC Shakespeare Retold Macbeth
2. Shakespearean Retreats: Spectrality, Survival, and Auto-Immunity in Kristian Levring's The King Is Alive
3. Reiterating Othello: Spectral Media and the Rhetoric of Silence in Alexander Abela's Souli
4. 'This Is My Home, Too': Migration, Spectrality, and Hospitality in Roberta Torre's Sud Side Stori
5. "Shakespeare in the Extreme": Ghosts and Remediation in Alexander Fodor's Hamlet
6. 'Restless Ecstasy': Addiction, Reiteration, and Mediality in Klaus Knoesel's Rave Macbeth
7. 'He speaks...Or Rather...He Tweets': The Specter of the "Original," Media, and 'Media-Crossed' Love in Such Tweet Sorrow