Shakespeare and Seriality - Page, Stage, Screen

Encompassing a wide variety of genres and media across a broad historical scope, this open access book explores seriality in Shakespeare-s plays and their adaptations throughout multiple centuries and art forms.

Beginning by investigating Shakespeare himself as a serial writer, Shakespeare and Seriality moves to a series of case studies involving literary and dramatic adaptations - such as those by Joyce and Beckett - to the more modern theatrical serializations of his plays. Culminating in the analysis of adaptations of Shakespeare in complex TV series, including HBO-s Succession, and the -post-apocalyptic- Station 11, this book explores Shakespeare-s seriality from the perspective of political theory, phenomenology, psychoanalysis and literary and cultural theory.

Spanning multiple time-periods and using a plethora of media tools, this volume utilizes the debate between Shakespeare and -not-Shakespeare- in adaptation studies to examine ser