Friday, March 14, 2014

Special Issue on Global Shakespeares, reviews of Al-Bassam and Achour plays

Shakespeare (The British Shakespeare Association) Volume 9, Issue 3, September 2013
Special Issue on Global Shakespeares, edited by Alexander Huang
Video clips that accompany the articles are available on: http://globalshakespeares.mit.edu/
If interested in reading an article from the issue please contact Alex Huang (acyhuang05@gmail.com)

ARTICLES
Alexander C. Y. Huang
pages 273-290
Having reached a critical mass of participants, performances and the study of Shakespeare in different cultural contexts are changing how we think about globalization. The idea of global Shakespeares has caught on because of site-specific imaginations involving early modern and modern Globe theatres that aspired to perform the globe. Seeing global Shakespeares as a methodology rather than as appendages of colonialism, as political rhetorics, or as centerpieces in a display of exotic cultures situates us in a postnational space that is defined by fluid cultural locations rather than by nation-states. This framework helps us confront archival silences in the record of globalization, understand the spectral quality of citations of Shakespeare and mobile artworks, and reframe the debate about cultural exchange. Global Shakespeares as a field registers the shifting locus of anxiety between cultural particularity and universality. The special issue explores the promise and perils of political articulations of cultural difference and suggests new approaches to performances in marginalized or polyglot spaces.

Peter S. Donaldson
pages 291-303
 
Kinga Földváry
pages 304-312
 
Giselle Rampaul
pages 313-321
 
Juan F. Cerdá
pages 322-329
 
Nely Keinänen
pages 330-338
 
 
REVIEWS
Anna S. Camati & Liana C. Leão
pages 339-341
 

Lucian Ghita
pages 342-346
 
Jyotsna Singh
pages 347-349
 
Margaret Litvin
pages 350-352
 
Carla Della Gatta
pages 353-355
 
Georgi Niagolov
pages 356-358
 
 
Jeffrey Butcher
pages 362-364
 
Review of Shakespeare's Othello (directed by Nikos Charalambous for the Cyprus Theatre Organization) at Latsia Municipal Theatre, Nicosia, Cyprus, 27 November 2010
Eleni Pilla
pages 365-366
 
 
 
REVIEW ARTICLE

Haylie Brooke Swenson
pages 367-372

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