List of Illustrations
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: Empathy, retelling and seriality in Shakespeare’s 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. ‘Is this the promised end?’: Afterwards, airflows, and Shakespearean dissonant repetitions in HBO’s Succession (2018-2023), 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: From repetition compulsions to the romance of recycling in Station Eleven, Christina Wald (University of Konstanz, Germany)
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