This eighth volume of The Shakespearean International Yearbook presents a special section on 'European Shakespeares', proceeding from the claim that Shakespeare's literary craft was not just native English or British, but was filtered and fashioned through a Renaissance awareness that needs to be recognized as European, and that has had effects and afterlives across the Continent. Guest editors Ton Hoenselaars and Clara Calvo have constructed this section to highlight both how the spread of 'Shakespeare' throughout Europe has brought together the energies of a wide variety of European...

In the ninth issue of The Shakespearean International Yearbook, guest editor Laurence Wright has assembled essays from South African critics that examine the treatment of Shakespeare's work in South Africa as an aspect of colonial history. The special section's emphasis on Shakespeare in the twentieth century acknowledges how the titanic political and ideological struggles that convulsed South Africa throughout the period also affected the ways Shakespeare was studied, interpreted, taught and performed. The Shakespearean International Yearbook continues to provide an annual survey of...