Shakespeare and the Supernatural

Victoria Bladen teaches in literary studies and adaptation at The University of Queensland, AustraliaYan Brailowsky is Senior Lecturer in early modern British history and literature at the University of Paris Nanterre

• Introduction: Shakespeare and the supernatural – Victoria Bladen and Yan BrailowskyPart I: Embodying the supernatural1 Shakespeare’s political spectres – Victoria Bladen 2 ‘Rudely stamped’: supernatural generation and the limits of power in Shakespeare’s Richard III – Chelsea Phillips 3 Digital puppetry and the supernatural: double Ariel in the Royal Shakespeare Company’s The Tempest (2017) – Anchuli Felicia KingPart II: Haunted spaces4 Demons and puns: Revisiting the ‘cellarage scene’ in Hamlet – Pierre Kapitaniak5 Performing the Shakespearean supernatural in Avignon: a challenge to the Festival – Florence MarchPart III: Supernatural utterance and haunted texts6 Prophecy and the supernatural: Shakespeare’s challenges to performativity – Yan Brailowsky7 Puck, Philostrate and the locus of A Midsummer Night’s Dream’s topical allegory – Laurie Johnson 8 ‘Strange intelligence’: Transformations of witchcraft in Macbeth discourse – William C. CarrollPart IV: Magic, music and gender9 Music and magic in The Tempest: Ariel’s alchemical songs – Natalie Roulon10 From Prospero to Prospera: transforming gender and magic on stage and screen – Katharine Goodland Part V: Contemporary transformations11 ‘I’ll put a girdle round the earth in forty minutes’: representing the supernatural in film adaptations of A Midsummer Night’s Dream – Gayle Allan12 Ophelia and her magical daughters: the afterlives of Ophelia in Japanese pop culture – Yukari YoshiharaIndex