Format:
1 online resource (281 pages)
ISBN:
9781350335110
Series Statement:
Global Shakespeare Inverted Series
Content:
Intro -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Figures -- Contributors -- Introduction: Global Shakespeare and its confrontation with social injustice -- Part I: Scholarship and social justice: Questions for the field -- Chapter 1: Re-thinking 'Global Shakespeare' for social justice -- Chapter 2: Caliban in an era of mass migration -- Chapter 3: What makes Global Shakespeares an exercise in ethics? -- Part II: Resisting racial logics -- Chapter 4: Making whiteness out of 'nothing': The recurring comedic torture of (pregnant) Black women from medieval to modern -- Chapter 5: Feeling in justice: Racecraft and The Merchant of Venice -- Chapter 6: Marking Muslims: The Prince of Morocco and the racialization of Islam in The Merchant of Venice -- Part III: Imagining freedom with Shakespeare -- Chapter 7: Shakespeare in and on exile: Politicized reading and performative writing in the Robben Island Shakespeare -- Chapter 8: 'Men at some times are masters of their fates': The Gallowfield Players perform Julius Caesar -- Part IV: Scrutinizing gender and sexual violence -- Chapter 9: The 'sign and semblance of her honour': Petrarchan slander and gender-based violence in three Shakespearean plays -- Chapter 10: Open-gendered casting in Shakespeare performance -- Chapter 11: Teaching Titus Andronicus and Ovidian myth when sexual violence is on the public stage -- Index.
Content:
"This book constitutes a timely response to an important moment for early modern cultural studies, as the academy is called to attend to questions of social justice. The field of Global Shakespeare is well placed to appreciate the ambialence that lies at the heart of Shakespeare scholarship in the twenty-first century, recognizing its troubling legacy as well as its transformations. It may require a revision of the critical lexicon to be able to probe the relationship between Shakespeare studies and the intractable forms of social injustice that infuse cultural, political and economic life. This volume helps us to imagine what radical and transformative pedagogy, theatre-making and scholarship might look like. The contributors both invoke and invert the paradigm of Global Shakespeare, building on the vital contributions of this scholarly field over the past few decades but also suggesting ways in which it cannot quite accommodate the various 'global Shakespeares' presented in these pages. A focus on social justice, and on the many forms of social injustice that demand our attention, leads to a consideration of the North/South constructions that have tended to shape Global Shakespeare conceptually, in the same way the material histories of 'North' and 'South' have shaped global injustice as we recognise it today. Such a focus invites us to consider the creative ways in which Shakespeare's imagination has been taken up by theatre-makers and scholars alike, and marshalled in pursuit of a more just world."--Back cover
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781350335097
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Global Shakespeare and social injustice London : The Arden Shakespeare, 2023 ISBN 9781350335097
Language:
English
Subjects:
English Studies
Keywords:
Shakespeare, William 1564-1616
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Ungerechtigkeit
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Aufsatzsammlung
Author information:
Young, Sandra 1969-
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