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Résumé :
'This extraordinary collection will have a profound impact on Shakespeare and appropriation studies. Using object-oriented methodology, the authors develop a speculative approach that refigures Shakespeare as a vibrant, multifarious thing that actively participates in the creation of limitless interpretations and appropriations. The volume opens up new possibilities for the field.' Lisa S. Starks, University of South Florida Examines Shakespeare fragments as agents of appropriation Drawing on new materialism and object-oriented ontology, Variable Objects proposes that Shakespeare is a vibrant object replete with a variable energy that accounts for its infinite meaning-making capacity. Using critical race theory, object oriented feminism, performance studies, Global Shakespeares, media studies and game theory, the collection's essays explore the dialogic relationship between the Shakespeare object and its appropriation. Each chapter demonstrates that instead of moving away from the source of appropriation, an object-oriented approach can centralise Shakespeare without the constraints of outdated notions of fidelity. Highlighting the variable materiality inherent in Shakespeare, the collection foregrounds the political ecologies of literary objects as a new methodology for adaptation studies. Valerie M. Fazel is Instructor at Arizona State University. Louise Geddes is Associate Professor of English at Adelphi University.

Biographie:

Valerie M. Fazel, Instructor at Arizona State University, is co-editor of The Shakespeare User: Critical and Creative Appropriation in a Networked Culture and co-author of the Shakespeare Multiverse: Fandom as Literary Praxis. Her essays on Shakespeare, social media, and fandom appear in Borrowers and Lenders and the forthcoming Shakespeare's Audiences.

Louise Geddes, Associate Professor of English at Adelphi University, is the author of Shakespeare in Appropriation: A Cultural History of Pyramus and Thisbe, and, with Valerie Fazel is co-editor of The Shakespeare User: Critical and Creative Appropriation in a Networked Culture and co-author of the Shakespeare Multiverse: Fandom as Literary Praxis.

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List of Illustrations
Contributors
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Bound in a Nutshell: Shakespeare's Vibrant Matter, Valerie M. Fazel and Louise Geddes PART I: DISCIPLINARY OBJECTS

1. Beds, Handkerchiefs, and Moving Objects in Othello, Sujata Iyengar
2. The Collectible Ofelia: Object-Oriented Feminisms and the Un-Human Corpus of Q1's Dispensaniac, Molly Seremet
3. Bitcoin, Blockchains, and the Bard, Robert Sawyer
PART II: MEDIA OBJECTS
4. 'Were I human:' Beingness and the Postcolonial Object in Westworld's Appropriation of The Tempest, L. Monique Pittman, Vanessa I. Corredera, Kristin N. Denslow, Karl G. Bailey
5. Finding Ludonarrative Harmony in the Limited Agency of Ophelia in Elsinore, Andrew Darr
6. Sympathise with the Losers: Performing Intellectual Loserdom in Shakespearian Biopic, Anna Blackwell
7. Prosthetic Properties: The Materiality of Race and Gender in The Hollow Crown: The Wars of the Roses, Emily MacLeod
PART III: HUMAN OBJECTS
8. 'Intermission!': Reading Race in the Objects of Key & Peele's 'Othello Tis My Shite', Shanelle E. Kim
9. Sight Unseen: Visualizing variability through ontological representations in Macbeth', Valerie Clayman Pye and Cara Gargano
10. The Thing Itself: Performance and the Celebrity Text, Louise Geddes