This is the first issue of the eighth volume of _Borrowers and Lenders_. Erickson, Peter _"'Late' has no meaning here": Imagining a Second Chance in Toni Morrison's Desdemona_; Scott-Douglass, Amy _This Tempest's Hers: Metropolitan Opera's The Enchanted Island and the Feminism of Bel CantoShakespeare Adaptation_; Olive, Sarah _Representations of Shakespeare's Humanity and Iconicity: Incidental Appropriations in Four British Television Broadcasts_; Desmet, Christy _Introduction_; Young, Alan _Sarah Bernhardt's Ophelia_; Russell, Anne _"Playing the Men": Ellen Tree, Fanny Kemble, and Theatrical Constructions of Gender_; Bailey Slagle, Judith _Joanna Baillie and the Anxiety of Shakespeare's Influence_; Lootens, Tricia _Shakespeare, King of What? Gender, Nineteenth-Century Patriotism, and the Case of Poet-lore_; Woo, Celestine _Bettymania and the Birth of Celebrity Culture, by Jeffrey Kahan_.

Borrowers and Lenders: The Journal of Shakespeare and Appropriation is a peer-reviewed, online, born-digital, multimedia journal that welcomes original scholarship engaging with the afterlives of Shakespearean texts and their literary, filmic, multimedia, and critical histories. It encourages contributors to use the online format to its best advantage, in particular, by imagining how to enhance or illustrate their essays with multimedia (screen captures, sound clips, images, and so on). B&L won the CELJ's "Best New Journal" Award in 2007. B&L is fully indexed in the MLA Bibliography and the World Shakespeare Bibliography. The journal was founded in 2005 by Christy Desmet and Sujata Iyengar of the English Department at the University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602, USA.