Kailin Wright is an associate professor of English, Jules Léger research chair, and award-winning teacher at St. Francis Xavier University.Don Moore is an adjunct professor of English at the University of Guelph.

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• ForewordAcknowledgments Introduction: Slings & Arrows: Adapting Shakespeare as Canada in Theatre and TelevisionKailin WrightAct I“Neither a Borrower nor Lender Be”: The Adaptation and Remediation of Shakespeare 1. Reborn in Germany: Theory and the Theatre in Slings & ArrowsMatt Williamson2. Slings & Arrows: An Intermediated Shakespearean Adaptation (reprint)Kim Fedderson and J.M. Richardson3. Specters of Ethics, Race, and Colonial Inheritance in Slings & Arrows:The Hyperreal Spectacle of Shakespeare as CanadaDon Moore4. Performing “a Nobody”: An Interview with Rothaford Gray on His Role as Nahum in Slings & ArrowsDon Moore and Kailin Wright Act II“What Players Are They?”: Vulnerable Performativity, Spectatorship, and Ghosts5. “Who’s There?”: Slings & Arrows’s Audience Dynamics (reprint)Kailin Wright6. Actors, Names, and the Cultural Inheritance of Slings & ArrowsLaura Estill7. Fistfights and Sacrifice: Troupe Dynamics, Transformation, and Shakespeare OffstageElizabeth E. Tavares8. Coloured “Extras” and Spotlit Whites: Spectating “Race” in Slings & ArrowsGeorge Elliott Clarke9. Comic Terror and Masculine Vulnerability in Slings & Arrows: Season Three. (reprint)Francesca T. Royster Act III“The Play’s the Thing”: Television, Theatre, and the Afterlife of Slings & Arrows 10. “Why Shakespeare? Why Canada?”: An Interview with Susan Coyne, Bob Martin, and Mark McKinney on Creating Slings & ArrowsKailin Wright11. Levinas-Based Shakespearean Adaptation, Performance, and Fandom in Slings & ArrowsLisa S. Starks12. Haters Gonna Hate: Vid Adaptations of Slings & ArrowsCharlotte Stevens13. Exhaustive Shakespeare, Shakespearean Exhaustion: Slings & Arrows and the End of Endless AdaptationDaniel Fischlin AfterwordMark FortierContributorsBibliographyIndex

Kailin Wright is an associate professor of English, Jules Léger research chair, and award-winning teacher at St. Francis Xavier University.Don Moore is an adjunct professor of English at the University of Guelph.

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• ForewordAcknowledgments Introduction: Slings & Arrows: Adapting Shakespeare as Canada in Theatre and TelevisionKailin WrightAct I“Neither a Borrower nor Lender Be”: The Adaptation and Remediation of Shakespeare 1. Reborn in Germany: Theory and the Theatre in Slings & ArrowsMatt Williamson2. Slings & Arrows: An Intermediated Shakespearean Adaptation (reprint)Kim Fedderson and J.M. Richardson3. Specters of Ethics, Race, and Colonial Inheritance in Slings & Arrows:The Hyperreal Spectacle of Shakespeare as CanadaDon Moore4. Performing “a Nobody”: An Interview with Rothaford Gray on His Role as Nahum in Slings & ArrowsDon Moore and Kailin Wright Act II“What Players Are They?”: Vulnerable Performativity, Spectatorship, and Ghosts5. “Who’s There?”: Slings & Arrows’s Audience Dynamics (reprint)Kailin Wright6. Actors, Names, and the Cultural Inheritance of Slings & ArrowsLaura Estill7. Fistfights and Sacrifice: Troupe Dynamics, Transformation, and Shakespeare OffstageElizabeth E. Tavares8. Coloured “Extras” and Spotlit Whites: Spectating “Race” in Slings & ArrowsGeorge Elliott Clarke9. Comic Terror and Masculine Vulnerability in Slings & Arrows: Season Three. (reprint)Francesca T. Royster Act III“The Play’s the Thing”: Television, Theatre, and the Afterlife of Slings & Arrows 10. “Why Shakespeare? Why Canada?”: An Interview with Susan Coyne, Bob Martin, and Mark McKinney on Creating Slings & ArrowsKailin Wright11. Levinas-Based Shakespearean Adaptation, Performance, and Fandom in Slings & ArrowsLisa S. Starks12. Haters Gonna Hate: Vid Adaptations of Slings & ArrowsCharlotte Stevens13. Exhaustive Shakespeare, Shakespearean Exhaustion: Slings & Arrows and the End of Endless AdaptationDaniel Fischlin AfterwordMark FortierContributorsBibliographyIndex