Part IV Scrutinizing gender and sexual violence : Teaching Titus Andronicus and Ovidian myth when sexual violence is on the public stage / Wendy Beth Hyman. Caliban in an era of mass migration / Linda Gregerson -- What makes Global Shakespears an exercise in ethics? / Alexa Alice Joubin -- Par II Resisting racial logics : Making whiteness out of 'nothing': The recurring comedic torture of (pregnant) Black women from medieval to moder / Dyese Elliott-Newton -- Feeling in justice: Racecraft and The Merchant of Venice / Derrick Higginbotham -- Marking Muslims: The Prince of Morocco and the racialization of Islam in The Merchant of Venice / Hassana Moosa -- Part III Imaging freedom with Shakespeare : Shakespeare in and on exile: Politicized reading and performative writing in the Robben Island Shakespeare / Kai Wiegandt -- 'Men at some times are masters of their fates': The Gallowfield PLayers perform Julius Caesar / Rowan Mackenzie -- Part IV Scrutinizing gender and sexual violence : The 'sign and semblance of her honour': Petrarchan slander and gender-based violence in three Shakesperean plays / Kristen Dey -- Open-gendered casting in Shakespeare performance / Abraham Stoll -- Teaching Titus Andronicus and Ovidian myth when sexual violence is on the public stage / Wendy Beth Hyman.
Summary:
"This book constitutes a timely response to an important moment for early modern cultural studies, as the academy is called to attend to questions of social justice. The field of GLobal Shakespeare is well placed to appreciate the ambialence that lies at the heart of Shakespeare scholarship in the twenty-first century, recognizing its troubling legacy as well as its transformations. It may require a revision of the critical lexicon to be able to probe the relationship between Shakespeare studies and the intractable forms of social injustice that infuse cultural, political and economic life. This volume helps us to imagine what radical and transformative pedagogy, theatre-making and scholarship might look like. The contributors both invoke and invert the paradigm of Global Shakespeare, building on the vital contributions of this scholarly field over the past few decades but also suggesting ways in which it cannot quite accommodate the various 'global Shakespeares' presented in these pages. A focus on social justice, and on the many forms of social injustice that demand our attention, leads to a consideration of the North/South constructions that have tended to shape Global Shakespeare conceptually, in the same way the material histories of 'North' and 'South' have shaped global injustice as we recognise it today. Such a focus invites us to consider the creative ways in which Shakespeare's imagination has been taken up by theatre-makers and scholars alike, and marshalled in pursuit of a more just world."--Back cover
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