Shakespearean International Yearbook - Disability Performance and Global Shakespeare

The Shakespearean International Yearbook surveys the present state of Shakespeare studies in global contexts, addressing issues that are fundamental to our interpretive encounter with Shakespeare's work and his time.

List of contents

Part I: Disability Performance and Global Shakespeare; 1. Introduction: Disability Performance and Global Shakespeare; 2. Concealing, Simulating, or Re-Defining Disability?: Richard III and Performing (with) Disability in Arabian Gulf Theatre; 3. "A body like this can't play Richard": Embodied Representation and Welshness in richard iii redux [or] Sara Beer is/not Richard III; 4. "Baroque Staring": Caliban in Polish Theatre; 5. Making Meaning of the (Ab)normal Body: Reading Caesar's Body as a Palimpsest in Julius Caesar and Sri Lankan Performance; 6. "Audience to this Act": Audience as Disabling in Stagings of Deafness in Hamlet; 7. "What's with Him?": Reading Hamlet and Haider through the Lens of Disability-Craft; 8. Intellectual Disability, Madness, and Gender in Karim-Masihi's Tardid/Doubt: A Rewriting of Shakespeare's Hamlet; 9. "Cast[e]ing Shakespeare": Intersections of Disability and Race in Vishal Bhardwaj's Maqbool; 10. Against White Cripistemology: Seeing Race and Global Disability in King Lear; Part II: The Year in Review; 11. Access and Global Shakespeares: The State of the Field, 2022-23

About the author

Alexa Alice Joubin, Professor of English, George Washington University, and Research Affiliate, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA.
Natalia Khomenko teaches English Literature at York University (Toronto). Her ongoing research project focuses on the reception, interpretation, and adaptation of Shakespearean drama in early Soviet Russia.

Product details

• Authors: Alexa Alice (George Washington University) Joubin
• Assisted by: Alexa Alice Joubin (Editor), Natalia Khomenko (Editor), Katherine Schaap Williams (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 29.09.2025
• EAN: 9781032649221
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3264922-1
• No. of pages: 206
• Series: The Shakespearean International Yearbook
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Sociology, LITERARY CRITICISM / Shakespeare, LITERARY CRITICISM / Renaissance, Literary studies: general, Disability: social aspects, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, Shakespeare Plays, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Disability, Classic plays / drama