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The Shakespearean International Yearbook General Editor: Alexa Alice Joubin

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. Contributions are solicited from scholars across the field and from both hemispheres of the globe who represent diverse career stages and linguistic traditions. Both new and ongoing t

rends are examined in comparative contexts, and emerging voices in different cultural contexts are featured alongside established scholarship. Each volume features a collection of articles that focus on a theme curated by a specialist Guest Editor, along with coverage of the current state of the field in other aspects. An essential reference tool for scholars of early modern literature and culture, this annual publication captures, from year to year, current and developing thought in global Shakespeare scholarship and performance practice worldwide.

References to Shakespeare frequently mark moments of catastrophe and of the accompanying longing for restoring social or...
24/08/2025

References to Shakespeare frequently mark moments of catastrophe and of the accompanying longing for restoring social order, remedying injuries, and building strong communities. How has drawing on Shakespeare aided or undermined these projects? Read this sample chapter by Alexa Alice Joubin and Natalia Khomenko

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In our new volume on Reparative Shakespeare, we examine artistic claims that performances repair and improve social cond...
24/08/2025

In our new volume on Reparative Shakespeare, we examine artistic claims that performances repair and improve social condition (using international Shakespeare as case study). Here is our table of contents:

Preface by Alexa Alice Joubin and Natalia Khomenko

1 Theorizing Social Reparation: Introduction to Reparative Global Shakespeare
Alexa Alice Joubin and Natalia Khomenko

Part I British Shakespeare and Soft Power
2 Shakespeare and International (Soft?) Power: Through the Lens of the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust’s Collections
Helen A. Hopkins
3 Shakespearean Neverwheres: Victoria (BC), Anne Hathaway’s Cottage, and Nostalgia for “Merry Olde England”
Sarah Crover
Part II Postcolonial Reparation
4 Hamlet in Kashmir, Hamlet as Kashmir: The Politics of Place in Vishal Bhardwaj’s Haider (2014)
Afreen Sen Chatterji
5 Can the Rwandese Speak?: European Colonial Legacy in Ben Proudfoot’s Rwanda & Juliet (2016)
Cynthia May Martin
Part III Shakespeare and the Holocaust

6 Shylock and the Resentments of Jean Améry
Richard Ashby
7 Repairing Generational Trauma Through Cordelia, Mein Kind: An Interview With Deborah Leiser-Moore
Natalia Khomenko

Part IV Political Mis/Appropriations
8 “A Language I Speak”: Shakespearean Explorations in Portuguese, Argentine, and English Prisons
Sheila T. Cavanagh and Maria Sequeira Mendes
9 Feeling With Othello: The Ethical Implications of Ideological Empathy
Natalia Khomenko

Part V Year in Review
10 Race and the “Global” in Shakespeare Studies
Anandi Rao

Our latest volume is now available. In this volume we examine social reparation in adaptations of Shakespeare.
24/08/2025

Our latest volume is now available. In this volume we examine social reparation in adaptations of Shakespeare.

In the modern world, references to Shakespeare frequently mark moments of catastrophe and of the accompanying longing for restoring social order, remedying injuries, and building strong communities. Shakespeare’s moral authority has often been invoked to support artistic projects that claimed soci...

In our latest volume, we explore global disability performance. Here is the table of contents. Preface by Alexa Alice Jo...
13/07/2024

In our latest volume, we explore global disability performance. Here is the table of contents.

Preface by Alexa Alice Joubin and Natalia Khomenko

1. Introduction: Disability Performance and Global Shakespeare
Katherine Schaap Williams
2. Concealing, Simulating, or Re-Defining Disability?: Richard III and Performing (with) Disability in Arabian Gulf Theatre
Katherine Hennessey
3. “A body like this can’t play Richard”: Embodied Representation and Welshness in richard iii redux [or] Sara Beer is/not Richard III
S.R. May
4. “Baroque Staring”: Caliban in Polish Theater
Anna Kowalcze-Pawlik
5. Making Meaning of the (Ab)normal Body: Reading Caesar’s Body as a Palimpsest in Julius Caesar and Sri Lankan Performance
Isuru Ayeshmantha Rathnayake
6. “What’s with Him?”: Reading Hamlet and Haider through the Lens of Disability-Craft
Deyasini Dasgupta
7. Intellectual Disability, Madness, and Gender in Karim-Masihi’s Tardid/Doubt: A Rewriting of Shakespeare’s Hamlet
Shekufeh Owlia
8. “Cast[e]ing Shakespeare”: Intersections of Disability and Race in Vishal Bhardwaj’s Maqbool
Zainab Cheema
9. Against White Cripistemology: Seeing Race and Global Disability in King Lear
Penelope Geng
10. Access and Global Shakespeares: The State of the Field
Roderick Hugh McKeown

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