Ethical Implications of Shakespeare in Performance and Appropriation

Louise Geddes is Professor of English at Adelphi University, USA. She is the author of Appropriating Shakespeare: A Cultural History of Pyramus and Thisbe and with Valerie M. Fazel she has co-authored The Shakespeare Multiverse: Fandom as Literary Praxis and co-edited The Shakespeare User: Creative and Critical Appropriation in Networked Culture and Variable Objects: Speculative Shakespeare Appropriation. She has had articles published in Shakespeare Bulletin, Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England, Shakespeare and Shakespeare Survey. She is currently general co-editor of the open access journal Borrowers and Lenders: The Journal of Shakespeare Appropriation. Kathryn Vomero Santos is Assistant Professor of English and co-director of the Humanities Collective at Trinity University. She is currently completing a book entitled Shakespeare in Tongues for the Spotlight on Shakespeare series (Routledge, 2024). With Katherine Gillen and Adrianna M. Santos, she co-founded the Borderlands Shakespeare Colectiva, which has received funding from the Mellon Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities. Together, they are editing The Bard in the Borderlands: An Anthology of Shakespeare Appropriations en La Frontera (ACMRS Press, 2023 and 2024). Geoffrey Way is the Manager of Publishing Futures for the Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies and ACMRS Press, where he serves as the Managing Editor for The Sundial and Borrowers and Lenders. He has published on Shakespeare, appropriation, digital media, and performance in Shakespeare Bulletin, Borrowers and Lenders, Journal of Narrative Theory, and Humanities, and in several edited collections. With Vanessa Corredera and L. Monique Pittman, he is also co-editor of Shakespeare and Cultural Appropriation (Routledge, 2023).

• List of FiguresAcknowledgementsContributor BiographiesIntroduction: Performing the Promise of Shakespeare - Louise Geddes, Kathryn Vomero Santos, and Geoffrey Way1. '…a thing impossible I should love thee': Shakespearean Performance as White Property - Vanessa I. Corredera2. Hamlet as Resisting Subject: Intersecting Artistic Tactics in the Mousetraps of Doran and Godwin - Kristin N. Denslow and L. Monique Pittman3. Jewishness between Performance and Appropriation: Music for The Merchant of Venice (2004) - Kendra Preston Leonard4. Rita Dove, Blues Aesthetics and Shakespearean Improvisation - John Garrison and Saiham Sharif5. ‘Ich leb’, was ihr rappt': Confronting Racism through Consumption in OG Keemo’s Otello - Kirsten Mendoza and Oliver Knabe6. Mythical Geographies: Race, Nationalism and Shakespeare’s Pronunciation - Chris Klippenstein7. Shakespeare and Gentrification in Regional Theatre - Niamh O’Leary8. Page and Stage Appropriations of Two Gentlemen of Verona - Matt Kozusko9. (Un)Veiling Isabella in Measure for Measure - Nora J. Williams10. ‘I have perused her well': The Appropriation and Hypersexualisation of Anne Boleyn in Popular Representations - Yasmine Hachimi11. Trammeling up the Consequence: Making Shakespeare Fiction - Andrew James HartleyIndex

Shakespeare is everywhere – from references in sitcoms to big-budget film and theatrical productions – but how we make sense of his omnipresence can be illusive. Ethical Implications of Shakespeare in Performance and Appropriation provides a vital critical intervention. A must read for scholars and practitioners of Shakespeare in all his guises.