ABSTRACT
The World William Shakespeare Project, for example, was established at Emory University in Atlanta, taking advantage of modern technology in order to create international Shakespearean partnerships. Students at Sido Kanhu Murmu University, a tribal college in Dumka, Jharkhand, India, for instance, experience transformative Shakespearean engagements that are particular to their specific environment. The unavoidably controversial and restricted nature of cartographical divisions illustrates the importance of recognizing Shakespearean endeavors that may incorporate geopolitical constructs, but whose “global” aspects expand beyond sociopolitical identities. The Shakespearean projects considered are illustrative, however, of the ways that twenty-first-century Global Shakespeares sometimes embrace, but also regularly resist, identification through artificial geographical boundaries. “Global Shakespeare” has become a common phrase in twenty-first-century academic discourse, but its meaning remains controversial and often ill-defined. The endeavors considered employ geography as only one identifying facet within Global Shakespeare.
