In the modern world, references to Shakespeare frequently mark moments of catastrophe and of the accompanying longing for restoring social order, remedying injuries, and building strong communities. Shakespeare’s moral authority has often been invoked to support artistic projects that claimed social justice as their goal on the assumption that drama has the power to manipulate perceptual reality. Drawing on cases from around the world, this book interrogates the idea that performing or reading Shakespeare has socially reparative value. It also acknowledges Shakespeare as a potential source of social well-being practices in the arts. The global framework shows that it is problematic to view Shakespeare as an impartial moral center.This book proposes that reparative creativity, or remedial uses of the canon, can give artists and audiences more agency. Having a map of canonical texts’ hidden ideologies can help readers, artists, and playgoers navigate its landscape, which is in itself a reparative act.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2026-10-16
Mått152 x 229 x 11 mm
Vikt279 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieShakespearean International Yearbook
Antal sidor176
FörlagTaylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN9781032814339

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Alexa Alice Joubin is 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, DC, USA, where she directs the Digital Humanities Institute.Natalia Khomenko is Co-Editor of The Shakespearean International Yearbook. She is a lecturer in English Literature at York University, Toronto, Canada. Her current research project focuses on the reception and interpretation of Shakespearean drama in Soviet Russia.

General EditorList of ContributorsPrefaceAlexa Alice Joubin and Natalia Khomenko1 Theorizing Social Reparation: Introduction to Reparative Global ShakespeareAlexa Alice Joubin and Natalia KhomenkoPart I British Shakespeare and Soft Power2 Shakespeare and International (Soft?) Power: Through the Lens of the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust’s CollectionsHelen A. Hopkins3 Shakespearean Neverwheres: Victoria (BC), Anne Hathaway’s Cottage, and Nostalgia for “Merry Olde England”Sarah CroverPart II Postcolonial Reparation4 Hamlet in Kashmir, Hamlet as Kashmir: The Politics of Place in Vishal Bhardwaj’s Haider (2014)Afreen Sen Chatterji5 Can the Rwandese Speak?: European Colonial Legacy in Ben Proudfoot’s Rwanda & Juliet (2016)Cynthia May MartinPart III Shakespeare and the Holocaust6 Shylock and the Resentments of Jean AméryRichard Ashby7 Repairing Generational Trauma Through Cordelia, Mein Kind: An Interview With Deborah Leiser-MooreNatalia KhomenkoPart IV Political Mis/Appropriations8 “A Language I Speak”: Shakespearean Explorations in Portuguese, Argentine, and English PrisonsSheila T. Cavanagh and Maria Sequeira Mendes9 Feeling With Othello: The Ethical Implications of Ideological EmpathyNatalia KhomenkoPart V Year in Review10 Race and the “Global” in Shakespeare StudiesAnandi RaoIndex