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Publishing its nineteenth volume, The Shakespearean International Yearbook surveys the present state of Shakespeare studies, addressing issues that are fundamental to our interpretive encounter with Shakespeare's work and his time, across the whole spectrum of his literary output.
List of contents
Preface
Tom Bishop and Alexa Alice Joubin
General Editors
List of Contributors
Part I: Shakespeare and Refugees
Introduction
Ton Hoenselaars and Stephen O’Neill
I: Dangerous Conversations / Communities
- Refugee Theatre: Hospitality and Dangerous Conversations in The Jungle and Hamlet
David Ruiter, University of California, San Diego
- In the eye of the storm: Refugee-Responsive Shakespeare on the Italian stage
Sara Soncini, University of Pisa
- Hamlet in the "Jungle": Representing Shakespeare in the Calais Refugee Camp"
Amy L. Smith, Kalamazoo College
II: Stories
- An Interview with Ayham Majid Agha
Margaret Litvin, Boston University
- Foreigners and Strangers: Theatre, History and a City of Refuge
Tony Howard, University of Warwick
- Dramatic Escapes: Elisabeth Bergner, the Vanishing Refugee, and As You Like It
Robert Sawyer, East Tennessee State University
III: Ethics
- "This is the Strangers’ Case": Shakespeare, Sir Thomas More, and Refugees
Sabine Schülting, Freie Universität, Berlin
- Humanist Shakespeare? Xennophobia and Compassion in Sir Thomas More
Anne Sophie Refskou, University of Surrey
Part Two: Latin American Shakespeares
- "This Island’s Mine": Ecocritical Caribbean Tempests
Jennifer Flaherty, Georgia College
- Recovering Linguistic Multiplicity in Nicanor Parra’s "Antipoetic" Translation of King Lear
Belén Bistué, Conicet, Universidad Nacional de Cuyo
- "Enter Time, the Chorus": The Winter’s Tale by Companhia Atores de Laura, Brazil
Aline de Mello Sanfelici, Universidade Tecnológica Federal do Paraná, and José Roberto O’Shea, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina
- Possessed by Shakespeare: Hamlet and Tomás González’s El bello arte de ser
Donna Woodford-Gormley, New Mexico Highlands University
- Anti-Shakespeare Rhetoric and Colombia’s "Theatre for Peace"
Kevin A. Quarmby, The College of St. Scholastica
- "Sir, You’re Robb’d": Iago and the Ethics and Aesthetics of Adapting Shakespeare in Brazil
Cristiane Busato Smith, Osher Lifelong Learning Institute Arizona State University, and Liana de Camargo Leão, Universidade Federal do Paraná
Part III: Shakespeare in German Translation
- Translating Orchids: Rhizomes in German Shakespeare Translation
Christian Smith, Independent Scholar
About the author
General Editors:
Tom Bishop is a professor of English at the University of Auckland, New Zealand
Alexa Alice Joubin is a professor of English, women’s, gender and sexuality studies; theatre; and international affairs at George Washington University, in Washington, DC, US, where she serves as founding codirector of the Digital Humanities Institute.
Guest Editors:
Ton Hoenselaars is professor in Early Modern English Literature at the University of Utrecht.
Stephen O’Neill is an Associate Professor at Maynooth University.
Summary
Publishing its nineteenth volume, The Shakespearean International Yearbook surveys the present state of Shakespeare studies, addressing issues that are fundamental to our interpretive encounter with Shakespeare’s work and his time, across the whole spectrum of his literary output.
