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.

• A Note on Form and MethodologyMultiverse, part one: Ode to Ophelia Introduction - The Pleasures of Cyborg ReadingMultiverse, part two: The Patient Must Minister To Himself, or, William and the DoctorChapter One - The Archontic Multiverse: A Theory of Shakespeare’s Big BangMultiverse, part three: Prince’s ShadowChapter Two - "The Thing Itself": Paratexts and New Shakespeare GenealogiesMultiverse part four: Four Songs for Lady MacbethChapter Three - Taking out the (Shakespeare) Trash: Illegitimate Knowledge and Shakespeare’s LosersMultiverse part five: Hamlet’s BuzzChapter Four - Your Fave is Problematic: AnteFandom, Anti Fandom, and the Problem of WillMultiverse part six: The Red Right HandConclusion - Shakespeare and the Cyborg Self

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.

• A Note on Form and MethodologyMultiverse, part one: Ode to Ophelia Introduction - The Pleasures of Cyborg ReadingMultiverse, part two: The Patient Must Minister To Himself, or, William and the DoctorChapter One - The Archontic Multiverse: A Theory of Shakespeare’s Big BangMultiverse, part three: Prince’s ShadowChapter Two - "The Thing Itself": Paratexts and New Shakespeare GenealogiesMultiverse part four: Four Songs for Lady MacbethChapter Three - Taking out the (Shakespeare) Trash: Illegitimate Knowledge and Shakespeare’s LosersMultiverse part five: Hamlet’s BuzzChapter Four - Your Fave is Problematic: AnteFandom, Anti Fandom, and the Problem of WillMultiverse part six: The Red Right HandConclusion - Shakespeare and the Cyborg Self

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.

• A Note on Form and MethodologyMultiverse, part one: Ode to Ophelia Introduction - The Pleasures of Cyborg ReadingMultiverse, part two: The Patient Must Minister To Himself, or, William and the DoctorChapter One - The Archontic Multiverse: A Theory of Shakespeare’s Big BangMultiverse, part three: Prince’s ShadowChapter Two - "The Thing Itself": Paratexts and New Shakespeare GenealogiesMultiverse part four: Four Songs for Lady MacbethChapter Three - Taking out the (Shakespeare) Trash: Illegitimate Knowledge and Shakespeare’s LosersMultiverse part five: Hamlet’s BuzzChapter Four - Your Fave is Problematic: AnteFandom, Anti Fandom, and the Problem of WillMultiverse part six: The Red Right HandConclusion - Shakespeare and the Cyborg Self