Shakespeare and the Problem of Adaptation

''Kidnie''s study presents original, sophisticated, and profoundly intelligent answers to important questions.''- Lukas Erne, University of Geneva

''This is a fine and productive book, one that will surely draw significant attention and commentary well beyond the precincts of Shakespeare studies.'' - W.B. Worthen, Columbia University

Shakespeare-s plays continue to be circulated on a massive scale in a variety of guises - as editions, performances, and adaptations - and it is by means of such mediation that we come to know his drama. Shakespeare and the Problem of Adaptation addresses fundamental questions about this process of mediation, making use of the fraught category of adaptation to explore how we currently understand the Shakespearean work. To adapt implies there exists something to alter, but what constitutes the category of the -play-, and how does it relate to adaptation? How do -play- and -adaptatio