Includes bibliographical references (p. 236-249) and index.
Contents
'Mere sparks and clandestine glories': women writers, Shakespeare and appropriation -- 'Not quite Shakespeare': Barbara Trapido's Juggling, intertextuality and keeping off the grass -- 'We dearly love the Bard, sir': Angela Carter's Shakespeare -- Kate Atkinson in the House of Arden -- 'We might as well be time travelling': Shakespeare, narrative and the Mobius strip -- Iris Murdoch and the theatrical scene -- 'Finding a different sentence': Marina Warner's Indigo; or, mapping the waters as palimpsest of The tempest -- Reclaimed from the sea: Leslie Forbes's Bombay ice -- Including Shakespeare: the novels of Gloria Naylor -- 'Rainy days mean difficult choices': Jane Smiley's appropriation of King Lear in A thousand acres -- 'Out of Shakespeare': other Lears -- Expanding the canon and casting ripples on the water.