The Shakespearean novel is undergoing a renaissance as the long prose narrative form becomes reinvigorated through new forms of media such as television, film, and the internet. Shakespeare and the Modern Novel explores the history of the novel as a literary form, suggesting that the form can trace its strongest roots beyond the eighteenth-century work of Daniel Defoe, Henry Fielding and Samuel Richardson to Shakespeares plays. Within this collection, well-established Shakespeare critics demonstrate that the diversity and flexibility of interactions between Shakespeare and the modern novel are very much alive.
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Introduction
Graham Holderness
Chapter
1. All the Worlds a [ Post-apocalyptic] Stage: The Future of
Shakespeare in Emily St. John Mandels Station Eleven
Charles Conaway
Chapter
2. Ian McEwan Celebrates Shakespeare: Hamlet in a Nutshell
Elena Bandķn and Elisa Gonzįlez
Chapter
3. Modernising Misogyny in Shakespeares Shrew
Natalie K. Eschenbaum
Chapter
4. Almost Shakespeare But Not Quite
Keith Jones
Chapter
5. Canon Fodder and Conscripted Genres: The Hogarth Project and the
Modern Shakespeare Novel
Laurie E. Osborne
Chapter
6. Loving Shakespeare: Anne Tylers Vinegar Girl and the Hogarth
Shakespeare Project
Elizabeth Rivlin
Chapter
7. Millennial Dark Ladies
Katherine Scheil
Chapter
8. Flights of Fancy and the Dissolution of Shakespearean Space-Time
in Angela Carters Nights at the Circus
Kate Myers
Chapter
9. Hamlets Displacement as a Recurrent Case in Cathers A Lost Lady
and Al Halabys Once in a Promised Land
Tareq Zuhair
Chapter
10. Susan Abulhawas Appropriation of Shakespeares Romeo and
Juliet
Yousef Abu Amrieh
Index
Graham Holderness is the author of numerous books on literary criticism, theory and scholarship, as well as fiction, poetry and drama. His most recent works include The Faith of William Shakespeare (Lion Books, 2016), Tales from Shakespeare: Creative Collisions (Cambridge University Press, 2014), Re-Writing Jesus: Christ in 20th Century Fiction and Film (Bloomsbury, 2014) and the historical fantasy novel Black and Deep Desires: William Shakespeare Vampire Hunter (Top Hat Books, 2015).
