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In the modern world, references to Shakespeare frequently mark moments of catastrophe and of the longing for restoring social order. Drawing on cases from around the world, this book interrogates the idea that performing or reading Shakespeare has socially reparative value.
List of contents
General EditorList of ContributorsPrefaceAlexa Alice Joubin and Natalia Khomenko1 Theorizing Social Reparation: Introduction to Reparative Global ShakespeareAlexa Alice Joubin and Natalia KhomenkoPart I British Shakespeare and Soft Power2 Shakespeare and International (Soft?) Power: Through the Lens of the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust's CollectionsHelen A. Hopkins3 Shakespearean Neverwheres: Victoria (BC), Anne Hathaway's Cottage, and Nostalgia for "Merry Olde England"Sarah CroverPart II Postcolonial Reparation4 Hamlet in Kashmir, Hamlet as Kashmir: The Politics of Place in Vishal Bhardwaj's Haider (2014)Afreen Sen Chatterji5 Can the Rwandese Speak?: European Colonial Legacy in Ben Proudfoot's Rwanda & Juliet (2016)Cynthia May MartinPart III Shakespeare and the Holocaust6 Shylock and the Resentments of Jean AméryRichard Ashby7 Repairing Generational Trauma Through Cordelia, Mein Kind: An Interview With Deborah Leiser-MooreNatalia KhomenkoPart IV Political Mis/Appropriations8 "A Language I Speak": Shakespearean Explorations in Portuguese, Argentine, and English PrisonsSheila T. Cavanagh and Maria Sequeira Mendes9 Feeling With Othello: The Ethical Implications of Ideological EmpathyNatalia KhomenkoPart V Year in Review10 Race and the "Global" in Shakespeare StudiesAnandi RaoIndex
About the author
Alexa Alice Joubin is General Editor of
The Shakespearean International Yearbook. She is Professor of English, Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Theatre, International Affairs, and East Asian Languages and Literatures at George Washington University in Washington, DC, USA, where she directs the Digital Humanities Institute.
Natalia Khomenko is Co-Editor of
The Shakespearean International Yearbook. She is a lecturer in English Literature at York University, Toronto, Canada. Her current research project focuses on the reception and interpretation of Shakespearean drama in Soviet Russia.
