William Shakespeare and 21st-Century Culture, Politics, and Leadership

Edited by Kristin M.S. Bezio, Associate Professor of Leadership Studies and Anthony Presti Russell, Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature, University of Richmond, US

• Contents:Introduction: “I that please some, try all”: Shakespeare this time 1Anthony Presti Russell and Kristin M. S. BezioPART I PERFORMANCE1 Performance and the political subject in Richard II 11Melissa Caldwell2 “Liars and swearers”: Shakespeare’s Macbeth and thedissemblance of modern autocrats 30Ryan Farrar3 Learning about leadership from Coriolanus and Coriolanus 51Peter Iver KaufmanPART II TRUTH4 “Lies like truth”: Macbeth and the American Dream 67Anthony Presti Russell5 When it is wise to play the fool: a lesson in servantleadership, courtesy of King Lear 90Katey Roden6 Post-truth and pre-truth: how rhetoric shapes reality inBoyle’s Certain Physiological Essays , Shakespeare’sOthello , and the language of Donald Trump 109Samantha DresselPART III RESISTANCE7 Much ado about me too: the personal and political activismof Shakespeare’s women 131Jess Landis8 Importance of highlighting the rotten state: a study ofVishal Bharadwaj’s Haider (2014) and its subversive strategies 149Debaditya Mukhopadhyay9 The Shakespeare Company Japan and regional self-fashioning 164Tetsuhito Motoyama and Fumiaki KonnoPART IV FREEDOM10 “Mountainish inhumanity”: the politics of religion,refugees, and ego from Sir Thomas More to Donald Trump 183Kristin M. S. Bezio11 Twelfth Night and gender fluidity 202Maria Carrig12 Shakespeare in other tongues: translation and adaptationinto Yoruba and Hausa in text, film, and stage productionsin Nigeria 218Kayode Gboyega KofoworolaEpilogue and post-script: the art of the De’ill, followed bya discussion between “M” and the editors 236Raphael SeligmannIndex

'Shakespeare Behind Bars was founded to assist the incarcerated in finding their authentic voices through an immersive experience in Shakespeare's original language, complex themes, and multiple meanings. I find myself today, happily aided in this process by writers in this collection from a rich variety of backgrounds who find truth in historical Shakespeare.'