Shakespeare and Adaptation Theory

Sujata Iyengar is Professor of English at the University of Georgia, USA. She is the author of Shades of Difference: Mythologies of Skin-Color in Early Modern England (2005), Shakespeare’s Medical Language (The Arden Shakespeare, 2011); editor of Disability, Health, and Happiness in the Shakespearean Body (2015); and co-author of ‘Not Like an Old Play’: Love’s Labour’s Lost de William Shakespeare (2014). With Christy Desmet, she co-founded and remains editor of the award-winning, online, multimedia, scholarly periodical Borrowers and Lenders: The Journal of Shakespeare and Appropriation.

• List of FiguresList of TablesAcknowledgementsNote on Texts and Sources UsedIntroduction: Much Ado About AdaptationWhat or Whom are we Adapting?Metaphors We Adapt ByAdaptation as Annotation in Much Ado1. Plants, Off-shoots, Genes: RhizomesPlantsOff-shootsGenesRhizomes: Plantation in some Tempests2. Art, Property, Theft: AppropriationArtPropertyTheftAppropriation as Revisioning: Othello without Othello (and Desdemona)3. Fidelity, Families, Ethics: DerivativesFidelityFamilies: Lear among the EditorsEthics and EditingDerivatives: Lear’s Progeny4. Transfer, Remediation, Broadcast: Intermedia TransferRemediationBroadcast and PodcastIntermedia: Audio Hamlets5. Memes, Networks, Fans: Transformations MemesNetworksFansTransformations: A Gender-Agenda in Twelfth Night6. Relocation, Translation, Hybridization: TradaptationRelocationTranslationHybridizationTradaptation: The Peregrinations of Pericles7. Accidents, Remains, Traces: AccommodationsAccidentsRemainsTracesAccommodations: Romeo and JulietGlossary of Selected Terms, Philip Gilreath with Sujata IyengarNotesReferencesIndex