The Shakespearean International Yearbook: Disability Performance and Global Shakespeare

ISBN-13: 9781032649214 / Angielski

Alexa Alice Joubin; Natalia Khomenko; Katherine Schaap Williams

Opis

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.

Spis treści

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

O autorze

Alexa Alice Joubin is the 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, D.C., where she serves as founding Co-director of the Digital Humanities Institute. 

Natalia Khomenko teaches English Literature at York University (Toronto). Her ongoing research project, which has received funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Council of Canada and York University, focuses on the reception, interpretation, and adaptation of Shakespearean drama in early Soviet Russia. Her work has appeared in several edited collections and journals, including Early Theatre, Borrowers and Lenders, Multicultural Shakespeare, Shakespeare Bulletin, Shakespeare, and Shakespeare Quarterly. Most recently, Natalia has co-edited a special issue of Shakespeare Bulletin on A Midsummer Night’s Dream in global performance, and is currently serving as a co-editor for The Shakespearean International Yearbook.

Katherine Schaap Williams is Associate Professor of English at the University of Toronto. Her scholarly work has appeared in ELH, English Studies, Disability Studies Quarterly, Early Theatre, Shakespeare Bulletin, the Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies, and several edited collections. She edited Chapman, Jonson, and Marston’s 1605 play Eastward Ho for The Routledge Anthology of Early Modern Drama (2020), and her monograph, Unfixable Forms: Disability, Performance, and the Early Modern English Theater (Cornell, 2021), was awarded an Honorable Mention for the MRDS Bevington Award for the best new book in early drama studies and an Honorable Mention for the Outstanding Book Award from ATHE.