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Through first-hand observation, personal and previously published interviews with the artists, as well as performance reviews, this study constructs a literary and dramaturgical analysis of three contemporary adaptations in order to understand how these artists converse with Shakespeare, as well as how they invite audiences to engage with retellings of his plays. In addition to analyzing contemporary audience engagement with Shakespeare, this examination provides an analysis of the artists’ respective methodologies of adaptation. The ways in which the writers and artists discussed here collaborate with and interrogate Shakespeare is of particular interest, as well as how they invite audiences to respond to and engage with the plays. The three plays examined in this study, BOY by Erik Ehn, The Feast: an intimate Tempest by Jessica Thebus and Frank Maugeri, and Sleep No More by Felix Barrett and Maxine Doyle, are thrown into relief with their Shakespearean sourcetexts to explore a question that is threefold: how are these adaptations interacting with Shakespeare? How are the adapters asking audiences to interact with these plays? 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