Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction Shakespeare and the Modern Novel 1
4. Chapter 1 ‘All the world’s a [post-apocalyptic] stage’ The Future of Shakespeare in Emily St. John Mandel’s Station Eleven 6
5. Chapter 2 Ian McEwan Celebrates Shakespeare Hamlet in a Nutshell 27
6. Chapter 3 Modernising Misogyny in Shakespeare’s Shrew 44
7. Chapter 4 Almost Shakespeare – But Not Quite 58
8. Chapter 5 Canon Fodder and Conscripted Genres The Hogarth Project and the Modern Shakespeare Novel 68
9. Chapter 6 Loving Shakespeare Anne Tyler’s Vinegar Girl and the Hogarth Shakespeare Project 86
10. Chapter 7 Millennial Dark Ladies 104
11. Chapter 8 Flights of Fancy and the Dissolution of Shakespearean Space-Time in Angela Carter’s Nights at the Circus 121
12. Chapter 9 Hamlet’s Displacement as a Recurrent Case in Cather’s A Lost Lady and Al Halaby’s Once in a Promised Land 137
13. Chapter 10 Susan Abulhawa’s Appropriation of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet 156
14. Index 179