In the modern world, references to Shakespeare frequently mark moments of catastrophe and of the accompanying longing for restoring social order, remedying injuries, and building strong communities. Shakespeare’s moral authority has often been invoked to support artistic projects that claimed social justice as their goal on the assumption that drama has the power to manipulate perceptual reality. Drawing on cases from around the world, this book interrogates the idea that performing or reading Shakespeare has socially reparative value. It acknowledges the abuse of Shakespeare as a source of social wellbeing practices in the arts. The global framework shows that it is problematic to view Shakespeare as an impartial moral center.
This book proposes that reparative creativity, or remedial uses of the canon, can give artists and audiences more agency. Having a map of canonical texts’ hidden ideologies can help readers, artists, and playgoers navigate its landscape, which is in itself a reparative act.
General Editor; List of Contributors; Preface - Alexa Alice Joubin and Natalia Khomenko; 1. Theorizing Social Reparation: Introduction to Reparative Global Shakespeare - Alexa Alice Joubin and Natalia Khomenko; Part I: British Shakespeare and Soft Power; 2. Inter/national Shakespeare: Diplomacy, Power, and the Cultural Institution - Helen A. Hopkins; 3. Shakespearean Neverwheres: Victoria (BC), Ann Hathaway’s Cottage, and Nostalgia for “Merry Olde England” - Sarah Crover; Part II: Postcolonial Reparation; 4. Hamlet in Kashmir, Hamlet as Kashmir: The Politics of Place in Vishal Bhardwaj’s Haider (2014) - Afreen Sen Chatterji; 5. Rwanda and Juliet: Exploring Shakespeare's Role in Post-Conflict Regions - Cynthia May Martin; Part III: Shakespeare and the Holocaust; 6. Shylock and the Resentments of Jean Améry - Richard Ashby; 7. Carrying Lear: An Interview with Deborah Leiser-Moore on Cordelia, Mein Kind - Natalia Khomenko; Part IV: Political Mis/appropriations; 8. "A language I speak”: Shakespearean Explorations in Portuguese, Argentine and English Prisons - Sheila Cavanagh and Maria Sequeira Mendes; 9. Feeling with Othello: The Reparative Potential of Ideological Empathy - Natalia Khomenko; Part V: Year in Review; 10. The State of the Field of Global Shakespeare - Anandi Rao; Index
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