Global Shakespeare and Social Injustice

Chris Thurman is the Director of the Tsikinya-Chaka Centre at Wits University, South Africa. He is the editor of Shakespeare in Southern Africa, president of the Shakespeare Society of Southern Africa and founder of Shakespeare ZA. He edited South African Essays on ‘Universal’ Shakespeare (2014).Sandra Young is Professor of English Literary Studies at the University of Cape Town, South Africa. Her publications include Shakespeare in the Global South: Stories of Oceans Crossed in Contemporary Adaptation (The Arden Shakespeare, 2019) and The Early Modern Global South in Print: Textual Form and the Production of Human Difference as Knowledge (2015).

• List of IllustrationsNotes on ContributorsEditors' Introduction1. Global Shakespeare and its Confrontation with Social Justice, Chris Thurman (Wits University, South Africa) and Sandra Young (University of Cape Town, south Africa)Section One: Scholarship and Social Justice: Questions for the Field2. Re-thinking 'Global Shakespeare' for Social Justice, Susan Bennett (University of Calgary, Canada)3. Caliban in an Era of Mass Migration, Linda Gregerson (University of Michigan, USA)4. What Makes Global Shakespeares an Exercise in Ethics? Alexa Alice Joubin (George Washington University, USA)Section Two: Resisting Racial Logics5. Making Whiteness out of 'Nothing': The Recurring Comedic Torture of (Pregnant) Black Women from Medieval to Modern, Dyese Elliott-Newton (UCLA, USA)6. Feeling in Justice: Racecraft and The Merchant of Venice, Derrick Higginbotham (University of Hawai’i at Manoa, USA)7. Marking Muslims: The Prince of Morocco and the Racialization of Islam in The Merchant of Venice, Hassana Moosa (Kings College, London, UK)Section Three: Imagining Freedom with Shakespeare8. Signing for Justice: Politicized Reading and Performative Writing in the Robben Island Shakespeare, Kai Wiegandt (Barenboim-Said Akademie, Berlin)9. 'Men at some times are masters of their fates': The Gallowfield Players perform Julius Caesar, Rowan Mackenzie (independent scholar, UK)Section Four: Placing Sex and Gender under Scrutiny10. The 'sign and semblance of her honour': Petrarchan Slander and Gender-based Violence in Three Shakespearean Plays, Kirsten Dey (University of Pretoria, South Africa)11. Open-gendered Casting in Shakespeare Performance, Abraham Stoll (University of San Diego, USA)12. Teaching Titus Andronicus and Ovidian Myth when Sexual Violence is on the Public Stage, Wendy Beth Hyman (Oberlin College, USA)NotesIndex

A vibrant, relevant and thoughtful selection of essays which highlight both the potential and the pitfalls in working with Shakespeare to address the challenges that face us today. We need many more of these books.