The Shakespearean International Yearbook

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.

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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.

Inhalt

General Editor

List of Contributors

Preface

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

Index