Cris Busato Smith teaches the class "Shakespeare & Spirituality: The Tragic Hero's Journey" for OLLI…
MIT Global ShakespearesFebruary 6, 2025
MIT Global Shakespeare is thrilled to announce the launch of the Shakespeare in Polish, a…
Alexa Alice JoubinOctober 7, 2024
MIT Global Shakespeares received an HONORABLE MENTION for the 2024 ATHE-ASTR Award for Excellence in…
MIT Global ShakespearesJuly 23, 2024
Renowned for his contemporary performances on Traditional Turkish Theater, Ayhan Hulagu has released his new…
MIT Global ShakespearesMarch 18, 2024
MIT Global Shakespeares is thrilled to announce the launch of the Shakespeare in Brazil educational…
MIT Global ShakespearesNovember 28, 2023
Alexa Alice Joubin received the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Award, which recognizes Professor…
MIT Global ShakespearesApril 30, 2023
Alexa Alice Joubin, a scholar of critical race theory, feminism, and transgender, performance, and film…
MIT Global ShakespearesApril 10, 2023
Cross-gender roles and performances permeate many of Shakespeare's plays. Viola presents as pageboy Cesario for…
Alexa Alice JoubinMarch 28, 2023
Cymbeline the Anthropocene is an international performance-research project which brings together seven theatre companies and…
Randall MartinSeptember 15, 2022
Donna Woodford-Gormley's new book, Shakespeare in Cuba (2021), uses the lens of cultural anthropophagy to explore…
Donna Woodford-GormleySeptember 13, 2022
We are pleased to announce the publication of MIT Global Shakespeares co-founder Alexa Alice Joubin's…
MIT Global ShakespearesAugust 21, 2022
Hamlet, Macbeth, and King Lear have inspired incredible work in the Sinophone theatres of Hong…
Alexa Alice JoubinJuly 8, 2022
What if some Shakespearean characters are transgender or played by trans actors? Examples include Viola…
Alexa Alice JoubinJuly 7, 2022
This is a book of convergences. First, the collision between Japan and Shakespeare, who was imported…
Graham HoldernessApril 12, 2022
South Korean actor Lee Soon-jae has appeared on the small and big screen for over…
MIT Global ShakespearesDecember 17, 2021
Refugees are the theme of the Shakespearean International Yearbook Vol. 19, co-edited by Tom Bishop,…
Alexa Alice JoubinNovember 30, 2021
It has now been a couple of months since the delights of the ESRA Virtual…
İlker ÖzçelikSeptember 13, 2021
MIT Global Shakespeares co-founder Alexa Alice Joubin spoke on a roundtable at the World Shakespeare…
MIT Global ShakespearesAugust 10, 2021
The World Shakespeare Congress is often referred to as the Olympics of Shakespeare studies. This…
Marinela GolemiAugust 10, 2021
Shakespeare is over 450 years old and yet we are still turning to him to…
Cristiane Busato SmithMay 3, 2021
Turkish Shakespeares launched on April 23, 2021 -- William Shakespeare's 405th birthday. The website aims to…
MIT Global ShakespearesApril 28, 2021
Shakespeare and East Asia (2021) explores distinctive themes in post-1950s Asian-themed performances and adaptations of…
Alexa Alice JoubinMarch 24, 2021
Cristiane Busato Smith, lead regional editor of Brazil for MIT Global Shakespeares and lecturer at Osher Lifelong Learning…
MIT Global ShakespearesFebruary 23, 2021
Diana Henderson, Arthur J. Conner Professor of Literature and MacVicar Faculty Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute…
MIT Global ShakespearesFebruary 23, 2021
Fri, February 19, 2021 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM EST Register at www.eventbrite.com/e/shakespeare-and-east-asia-tickets-136547261535 Join us…
Alexa Alice JoubinFebruary 17, 2021
Join playwright Caleen Jennings and scholars Ania Loomba and Alexa Alice Joubin for a discussion…
MIT Global ShakespearesSeptember 16, 2020
The 66th Taormina Film Fest took place in Sicily July 11-19, 2020. The feature film…
MIT Global ShakespearesSeptember 16, 2020
MIT Global Shakespeares co-founder Alexa Alice Joubin will deliver a keynote address on Teaching Global…
MIT Global ShakespearesJanuary 27, 2020
MIT Global Shakespeares founding co-director Alexa Alice Joubin was quoted in The Chronicle of Higher…
MIT Global ShakespearesDecember 13, 2019
Alexa Alice Joubin will be giving a TED-style plenary presentation on "Global Change through Shakespeare"…
MIT Global ShakespearesOctober 23, 2019
The second annual Shakespeare Festival in Turkey took place on April 5-20, 2019 co-chaired by Prof.…
İlker ÖzçelikOctober 3, 2019
How does Ophelia become “unbound” through supralinguistic structures of spectacle and music especially in a…
MIT Global ShakespearesJuly 12, 2019
Eating Shakespeare: Cultural Anthropophagy as Global Methodology is a new collection of essays and interviews…
MIT Global ShakespearesJune 5, 2019
MIT Global Shakespeares co-founder and co-editor Alexa Alice Joubin has published a new book, Race, with postcolonial…
Alexa Alice JoubinFebruary 10, 2019
Shakespeare’s role in England’s global expansion is often categorized as a conduit for Empire. For…
Alexa Alice JoubinNovember 2, 2018
Hay Festival in Wales, UK, is the largest literary festival in the world. On our…
Alexa Alice JoubinOctober 26, 2018
Do artists have moral responsibilities to speak truth to power? Should art comment on or…
Alexa Alice JoubinOctober 26, 2018
Local and Global Myths in Shakespearean Performance. Edited by Aneta Mancewicz and Alexa Alice Joubin. In the Reproducing Shakespeare series…
Alexa Alice JoubinOctober 26, 2018
Dr. Ömer Sekerci and Dr. İlker Özçelik of Suleyman Demirel University organized the "1st Shakespeare Festival" in…
MIT Global ShakespearesJune 25, 2018
Cris Busato Smith and Alexa Alice Joubin previewed the new MIT Global Shakespeares website in Los Angeles at…
MIT Global ShakespearesJune 15, 2018
A seminal publication for the study and staging of Shakespeare in Brazil, William Shakespeare. Teatro…
Cristiane Busato SmithJune 19, 2017
The Lancaster Campus of HACC, Central Pennsylvania’s Community College, hosted its fourth annual humanities symposium…
Hetal ThakerMay 25, 2017
Throwing a good party takes an inordinate amount of work, and Shakespeare commemorations are no…
Diana HendersonMarch 31, 2017
Excerpt: When the first Critical Survey special issue on Arab Shakespeares (CS 19:3, Winter 2007)…
Margaret LitvinFebruary 3, 2017
The New York Times covers the mock appeal of Shylock, presided by Judge Ruth Bader…
Peter S. DonaldsonJuly 28, 2016
Since 1990, more than 400 Korean Shakespeare productions have been staged in South Korea, many…
Hyon-u LeeJuly 14, 2016
Wellesley College celebrates the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death with Shakespeare on the Global Stage:…
Peter S. DonaldsonApril 11, 2016
MIT’s Global Shakespeares and “The Merchant in Venice” project commemorate the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s…
Diana HendersonMarch 29, 2016
To celebrate the release of Four Arab Hamlet Plays, a special evening of readings and…
Peter S. DonaldsonMarch 14, 2016
