Why was the Bard of Avon so frequently on the agenda of avant-garde writers in Britain, France, Italy, Portugal, Germany and Ireland? The essays of this book interrogate Shakespeare’s living presence and chart the multiple facets of his vibrant and chameleonic afterlives as no single volume has done before.

This collection charts the teeming legacies of William Hogarth and explores the ways in which his works and ideas were – and still are – revisited from the nineteenth century to today. Hogarth is discovered as an unforgotten living presence, whose memory energizes multiple expressive forms, from drama to narrative, graphic novel and TV.

The traditional borders between the arts have been eroded to reveal new connections and create new links between art forms. is intended to provide a forum for this activity. It will publish monographs, edited collections and volumes of primary material on points of crossover such as those between literature and the visual arts or photography and fiction, music and theatre, sculpture and historiography.