ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on Brazil, however, in order to provide a more detailed examination of the variety of approaches to the appropriation politics and performance practices of Shakespearean drama in a single Latin American nation. The image of Caliban conjured by them draws on a vision of William Shakespeare's character as a coarse, primitive force. Productions of Shakespeare with an Argentine cast produced in the first decades of the twentieth century include The Tempest, carried out by the company of Vittore-Pomar in 1924, who toured extensively in the Americas. The work of Jorge Luis Borges, whose writing includes citations and a wide variety of references to the English poet, is a significant and unique contribution to the Argentine Shakespearean tradition. Mexican explorations of Shakespeare from the twentieth century onwards have also yielded thought-provoking renditions of his works. Brazilian musical adaptations of Shakespeare's plays, combining theatre, music, and dance, have also increased Shakespeare's popularity in Brazil.
