This first issue of the twelfth volume of _Borrowers and Lenders_ focuses on Shakespeare across time and space. Hopkins, Lisa _Introduction: Early Modern Drama on Screen_; Duxfield, Andrew _Screening the Metatheatrical: Jan Švankmajer's Faust as Marlovian Adaptation_; Wardle, Janice _Time Travel and the Return of the Author: Shakespeare in Love, "The Shakespeare Code," and Bill_; Lovascio, Domenico _"Da quando ho conosciuto l'arte, 'sta cella è diventata 'na prigione": Cesare deve morire and the Unsettling Self-(Re-)Fashioning Power of Theater_; Murray-Pepper, Megan _"Everything thickens": Ngaio Marsh and an Intermedial Macbeth from New Zealand_; Lee, Adele _The Player King and Kingly Players: Inverting Hamlet in Lee Joon-ik’s King and the Clown (2005)_; Lanier, Douglas _"Must I Remember?": Hamlet, History, and Helmut Käutner's The Rest is Silence_; White, R. S. _Rivers of Story: Some Filmic Afterlives of Pericles_; Borsuk, Amy _Review of Shakespeare and the Players_; Buffey, Emily _Review of Imagining Shakespeare's Wife: The Afterlife of Anne Hathaway, by Katherine West Scheil_; Gilreath, Philip _Review of The Shakespeare User: Critical and Creative Appropriations in a Networked Culture, edited by Valerie M. Fazel and Louise Geddes_.

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.