Description: A concise guide to global performances of Shakespeare, combining methodologies of dramaturgy, film and performance studies, critical race and gender studies, and theories of cultural exchange.
Brief description: Alexa Alice Joubin is Professor of English, Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Theatre, International Affairs, and East Asian Languages and Cultures at George Washington University in Washington, D.C., USA. She is the inaugural recipient of the bell hooks Legacy Award and was awarded the Barbara Hodgdon Award for her work on Contemporary Readings in Global Performances of Shakespeare.
Review Quotes:
"This fascinating and globally comprehensive volume guides the reader to re-read Shakespeare's presence across media and cultures through current methodologies and delve into the many glocal repercussions of Shakespeare. Alexa Alice Joubin and the contributors of this volume deepen and enrich our contemporary understanding of Shakespeare." --Murat Ögütcü, Adiyaman University, Türkiye
"This new volume, edited by Alexa Alice Joubin, is a superlative addition to the important methodological and analytical work being done around the concept of "global Shakespeares." The structure as well as the content of the volume reflects the foundational notion of heterotopia, worlds within worlds, as essays on analytical and pedagogical methodologies for approaching Shakespeare on stage and screen coexist here with chapters focusing on diverse global regions and case studies ranging from Bollywood to Brazilian Zoom performances to comedic Canadian radio. The book embraces a polycentric multiculturalism that elucidates the crucial and ineluctable cross-cultural and trans-historical nature of Shakespeare in performance today, offering teachers and scholars multiple lenses through which to approach how and why the Bard functions in multifarious time-spaces." --Melissa Croteau, California Baptist University, USA