Playfulness in Shakespearean Adaptations

Marina Gerzic works for the ARC Centre for Excellence for the History of Emotions, the Australian and New Zealand Association for Medieval and Early Modern Studies Inc., and Medieval and Early Modern Studies at The University of Western Australia in both research and administration roles, and is the editorial assistant for the academic journals Parergon and Shakespeare Bulletin. She is the editor, with Aidan Norrie, of From Medievalism to Early-Modernism: Adapting the English Past (Routledge), and has published articles on film and adaptation theory, Shakespeare, pedagogy, cinematic music, cultural studies, science fiction, comics and graphic novels, and children's literature.Aidan Norrie is a historian of monarchy, and a Chancellor's International Scholar in the Centre for the Study of the Renaissance at The University of Warwick. Aidan is the editor, with Marina Gerzic, of From Medievalism to Early-Modernism: Adapting the English Past (Routledge); with Lisa Hopkins, of Women on the Edge in Early Modern Europe (Amsterdam University Press); and, with Mark Houlahan, of New Directions in Early Modern English Drama: Edges, Spaces, Intersections (Medieval Institute Publications). Aidan is currently working on a monograph, Elizabeth I and the Old Testament: Biblical Analogies and Providential Rule, which is forthcoming from Arc Humanities Press.