ABSTRACT
As long as global Shakespeares has existed as a recognizable area of study, researchers have worked to challenge inherited concepts of center and margins. Taking stock of the state of the field, this chapter surveys publications and new resources that appeared recently to assess how new scholarship interrogates the multiple ways Shakespeare’s works has been mobilized in different contexts and cultures. The issue of access serves as a framing concept in this survey: Who has the opportunity to stage, to read, to watch, or to write about Shakespeare? Whose engagements with Shakespeare, whether creative, critical, or something between the two, are then picked up, transmitted, shared—and shared with whom? Many of the works considered in this chapter engage in highly self-conscious reflection on their methodologies, alert to their own limitations.
