ABSTRACT
What new insights emerge when we think the fields of critical disability studies and global Shakespeare together? Attending carefully to scholarly intersections highlights how concepts drawn from disability theory illuminate contemporary productions of Shakespeare’s plays beyond Western contexts—and how such performances and films might, in turn, expand and refine our critical vocabulary for theorizing disability in and through the objects and methodologies of global Shakespeare. This introductory essay introduces key concepts in critical disability studies and considers the value of critical analysis at the intersection of disability and global Shakespeare.
