Shakespeare and Comics

Jim Casey is an independent scholar based in the USA.Brandon Christopher is Associate Professor in the Department of English at the University of Winnipeg, Canada.

• List of IllustrationsNotes on ContributorsAcknowledgementsIntroduction: What’s Shakespeare to Comics, or Comics to Shakespeare?Jim Casey (Independent scholar, USA) and Brandon Christopher (University of Winnipeg, Canada)Part One: Timeless and Timely1. Delineating Comics: Shakespeare Illustrated and the Question of Narrative Production, Catherine E. Thomas (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)2. Macbeth and the Spanish Post-War ‘Tebeo’: An Adventure Hero for Young Readers, Elena Bandin (University of León, Spain)3. Shakespeare in Harlem: Race, (Popular) Culture and I Am Alfonso Jones, Daniel Thomas Stein (University of Siegen, Germany)Part Two: Text and Image4. This Goodly Frame: The Collaborative Theatre of Good Tickle Brain, Mya Lixian Gosling (artist and author of Good Tickle Brain), Kate Pitt (dramaturg for Good Tickle Brain) and Annalisa Castaldo (Widener University, USA)5. Shakespeare and Female ‘Super’ Heroes: Classic Comics in the Golden and Silver Age, Darlena Ciraulo (University of Central Missouri, USA) 6. From Stage to Manga Page: Scalar Mediation and Shakespeare’s Tempest, Jennifer Waldron (University of Pittsburgh, USA)Part Three: Heroes and Villains7. ‘Bigger than Shakespeare’: Contingency and Cultural Memory in ‘A Groatsworth of Wit’, Douglas M. Lanier (University of New Hampshire, USA)8 Permission to Invade: Doom 2099’s Muses of Fire, Philip Austin Gilreath (Northeastern University, USA)9 Alas, Poor Hero: Heroism in Y: the Last Man, Niamh J. O’Leary (Xavier University, USA)Part Four: Violence and Trauma10. ‘Ax One Scream One’: Shakespeare as EC Comics Horror, Kyle A. Pivetti (Norwich University, USA)11. Into the Multiverse: Shakespeare, Adaptation, and the Alternate Reality of Marvel 1602, Charles Conaway (University of Southern Indiana, USA)12. Manga Adaptations of Macbeth, Yukari Yoshihara (University of Tsukuba, Japan)Part Five: Authors and Adaptors13. Reading for and against Prospero in The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Rhonda Knight (Coker University, USA)14. When Canons Collide: Isaac Asimov’s Dual Influences on Arthur Byron Cover’s Macbeth: The Graphic Novel, Joseph Sullivan (Marietta College, USA) 15. Puck You, Shakespeare: Embodiment and Authority in Gaiman and Vess’s ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’, Jim Casey (Independent scholar, USA)AfterwordGenre in Shakespeare and Comics, Peter Holland (University of Notre Dame, USA)Index