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The Shakespearean International Yearbook: Reparative Shakespeare book cover

1st Edition

The Shakespearean International Yearbook Reparative Shakespeare

Edited By Alexa Alice Joubin, Natalia Khomenko Copyright 2025
200 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

200 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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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.... Read more

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

Biography

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.

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