1. Introduction / Diana E. Henderson and Stephen O'Neill -- 2. Research Methods and Problems. 2.1 Shakespeare as Adaptor / Emma Smith -- 2.2 Shakespeare and Adaptation Theory : Unfinished Business / Douglas M. Lanier -- 2.3 What is Shakespeare Adaptation? Why Pericles? Why Cloud? Why Now? / Julie Sanders -- 3. Current Research and Issues. Histories and Politics of Adaptation. 3.1 Politics, Adaptation, Macbeth / William C. Carroll -- 3.2 Animating an Archive of Black Performance : Swing, William Alexander Brown, and The African Company Presents 'Richard III' / Joyce Green MacDonald -- 3.3 'Does anyone know another text?' : Post-Migratory Othello Adaptations on the German-Speaking Stage / Sabine Schülting -- 3.4 Japanese Novelizations of Shakespeare's Hamlet and Macbeth : the Culture of Hon'an as Adaptational Practice / Yukari Yoshihara -- Shakespeare in Parts. 3.5 Shakespeare Live! and the Commemorative Gala Revue : Rhetoric, Festivity and Fragmented Adaptation / Ailsa Grant Ferguson -- 3.6 'What burgeons in the memory…' : Transgression, Culture and Canon in Postmodern Adaptations of the Sonnets / Rui Carvalho Homem -- 3.7 'Play On', or the Memeing of Shakespeare : Adaptation and Internet Culture / Anna Blackwell -- 3.8 Bollywood Gertrudes and Global Shakespeares / Varsha Panjwani -- Media Lenses and Digital Cultures. 3.9 Screening Dreamy LA : Reading Genre in Casey Wilder Mott's Hollywood A Midsummer Night's Dream (2018) / Melissa Croteau -- 3.10 Televisual Adaptation of Shakespeare in a Multi-Platform Age / Susanne Greenhalgh -- 3.11 On Location in Asian Shakespeare Stage Adaptations / Yong Li Lan -- 3.12 “And We Will Ship Him Hence” : The Case for Shakespeare Fan Studies / Valerie M. Fazel & Louise Geddes -- 4. New Directions. 4.1 Reduce, Rewrite, Recycle : Adapting A Midsummer Night's Dream for Yosemite / Katherine Steele Brokaw & Paul Prescott -- 4.2 Hamlet in the Age of Algorithmic Production / Annie Dorsen interviewed by Miriam Felton-Dansky -- 4.3 A King Lear Sutra / Preti Taneja.