Book Cover -- Title -- Contents -- List of figures -- List of contributors -- General editor's preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction Christy Desmet -- Alas, poor Shakespeare! I knew him well Ivo Kamps -- Entry on Q Terence Hawkes -- Romancing the Bard Laurie E.Osborne -- Moor or less? The surveillance of Othello, Calcutta 1848 Sudipto Chatterjee and Jyotsna G.Singh -- Remembering King Lear in Jane Smiley's A Thousand Acres Caroline Cakebread -- Signifyin' on The Tempest in Gloria Naylor's Mama Day James R.Andreas, Sr. -- Accommodating the virago: Nineteenth-century representations of Lady Macbeth Georgianna Ziegler -- The Shakespeareanization of Robert Browning Robert Sawyer -- The displaced body of desire: Sexuality in Kenneth Branagh's Hamlet Lisa S.Starks -- Disney cites Shakespeare: The limits of appropriation Richard Finkelstein -- Afterword: The incredible shrinking Bard Gary Taylor -- Further reading Matt Kozusko -- References -- Index.