The Shakespearean International Yearbook

Reparative Shakespeare
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-81431-5
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 200 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 451 g

Reihe: The Shakespearean International Yearbook

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.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Joubin, Alexa Alice

Khomenko, Natalia

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Dramen und Dramatiker
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

General Editor

List of Contributors

Preface

Alexa Alice Joubin and Natalia Khomenko

1  Theorizing Social Reparation: Introduction to Reparative Global Shakespeare

Alexa Alice Joubin and Natalia Khomenko

Part I  British Shakespeare and Soft Power

2  Shakespeare and International (Soft?) Power: Through the Lens of the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust’s Collections

Helen A. Hopkins

3  Shakespearean Neverwheres: Victoria (BC), Anne Hathaway’s Cottage, and Nostalgia for “Merry Olde England”

Sarah Crover

Part II Postcolonial Reparation

4  Hamlet in Kashmir, Hamlet as Kashmir: The Politics of Place in Vishal Bhardwaj’s Haider (2014)

Afreen Sen Chatterji

5  Can the Rwandese Speak?: European Colonial Legacy in Ben Proudfoot’s Rwanda & Juliet (2016)

Cynthia May Martin

Part III  Shakespeare and the Holocaust

6  Shylock and the Resentments of Jean Améry

Richard Ashby

7  Repairing Generational Trauma Through Cordelia, Mein Kind: An Interview With Deborah Leiser-Moore

Natalia Khomenko

Part IV  Political Mis/Appropriations

8  “A Language I Speak”: Shakespearean Explorations in Portuguese, Argentine, and English Prisons

Sheila T. Cavanagh and Maria Sequeira Mendes

9  Feeling With Othello: The Ethical Implications of Ideological Empathy

Natalia Khomenko

Part V Year in Review

10  Race and the “Global” in Shakespeare Studies

Anandi Rao

Index

Über Autor(innen)

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.