ABSTRACT

The Shakespearean International Yearbook surveys the present state of Shakespeare studies in global contexts, addressing issues that are fundamental to our interpretive encounter with Shakespeare’s work and his time. Contributions are solicited from scholars across the field and from both hemispheres of the globe who represent diverse career stages and linguistic traditions. Both new and ongoing trends are examined in comparative contexts, and emerging voices in different cultural contexts are featured alongside established scholarship. Each volume features a collection of articles that focus on a theme curated by a specialist Guest Editor, along with coverage of the current state of the field in other aspects. An essential reference tool for scholars of early modern literature and culture, this annual publication captures, from year to year, current and developing thought in global Shakespeare scholarship and performance practice worldwide.

part I|182 pages

Disability Performance and Global Shakespeare

chapter 1|16 pages

Introduction

Disability Performance and Global Shakespeare

chapter 2|17 pages

Concealing, Simulating, or Re-Defining Disability?

Richard III and Performing (with) Disability in Arabian Gulf Theater

chapter 3|19 pages

“A Body Like This Can't Play Richard”

Embodied Representation and Welshness in richard iii redux [or] Sara Beer is/not Richard III

chapter 4|24 pages

“Baroque Staring”

Caliban in Polish Theater

chapter 5|18 pages

Making Meaning of the (Ab)normal Body

Reading Caesar's Body as a Palimpsest in Julius Caesar and Sri Lankan Performance

chapter 6|21 pages

“What's with Him?”

Reading Hamlet and Haider through the Lens of Disability-Craft

chapter 7|21 pages

Intellectual Disability, Madness, and Gender in Karim-Masihi's Tardid/Doubt

A Rewriting of Shakespeare's Hamlet

chapter 8|21 pages

“Cast[e]ing Shakespeare”

Intersections of Disability and Race in Vishal Bhardwaj's Maqbool

chapter 9|23 pages

Against White Cripistemology

Seeing Race and Global Disability in King Lear

part II|20 pages

The Year in Review

chapter 10|18 pages

Access and Global Shakespeares

The State of the Field