Brazil Regional Editor Dr. Anna Steph Camati wrote an article on Patricia Fagundes’ Brazilian adaptation of William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream which was performed in 2006. Fagundes, who directed, translated, and adapted the production, chose to set the play in a cabaret. Read More
MIT Global Shakespeares founding co-director and George Washington University English Professor Alexa Huang has been named the Fulbright Distinguished Chair in Global Shakespeare at Queen Mary University of London and University of Warwick for 2014-2015. Read More
Check out articles on exciting new films and productions in the special issue of Shakespeare (BSA journal, edited by Global Shakespeares’ co-founder Alexa Huang). In the engaging collection of articles you can read about the meanings of epic in Ryutopia Hamlet in Japanese, a Bollywood Lear made in London, Caribbean trickster figures, a Spanish actor-manager in Madrid and Latin America, and Perttu Leppä’s Finnish film Eight Days to the Premiere. Read More
MIT Global Shakespeares and the Taiwan Shakespeare Database have begun a formal collaboration which the two projects will share videos, coordinate interface and technical design. The Taiwan Shakespeare Database is directed by Beatrice Lei in collaboration with the Research Center for Digital Humanities, NTU. We hope that this alliance will be a model for how digital Shakespeare collections can share materials and enhance their use in research and education throughout the world. Read More
Dr. Cristiane Busato Smith, Global Shakespeares regional editor for Brazil, will chair a session on Friday, February 07, 2014 on Shakespeare and the Catastrophic at the 20th Annual ACMRS Conference, Arizona State University. She will also be presenting a paper entitled “Macbeth: Visions of Apocalypse Now and Then” on Saturday, February 08, 2014. Read More
Hyon-u Lee, Shakespeare scholar, translator, director, performer, and professor at Soon Chun Hyang University, is bringing a troupe to MIT to perform The Taming of the Shrew on October 1, 2013. In this adaptation, Kate is a hip-hop girl, and Petruchio is a Confucianist. This production comments on the harmony between East and West, old and new, patriarchy and feminism. Read More
Global Shakespeares’ partner Fundación Shakespeare Argentina (FSA) has organized several successful events to broad the appreciation for Shakespeare in Argentina and international recognition of Argentinian performances and interpretations of Shakespeare. Read More
It is easy to incorporate the issues of global Shakespeare or globalization into the standard Shakespeare course. Read More
Five presentations focused on performative, political, historical, and cultural aspects of post-1989 Hamlet productions from Romania, Poland, Hungary, Lithuania, and Serbia. Read More
In the past twenty-five years, the Nós do Morro company consolidated its roots in the heart of Rio de Janeiro and achieved international recognition. Read More
The University of Memphis’ Wanda Rushing: globalization is rarely uniform. Instead, it often involves a peculiar, sometimes contradictory tension between international and local dynamics. Read More
Dr Joshua Edelman and Dr Aneta Mancewicz, research fellows at Central School of Speech and Drama, University of London, conducted a workshop entitled ‘Watching the Watching of Shakespeare’. Read More
An actor from China’s Zhejiang Kunju Troupe walking down Henley Street, Stratford-upon-Avon. Read More
Global Shakespeares editors for Brazil — Liana de Camargo Leão, Anna Stegh Camati, and Cris Busato Smith — traveled to Boston to attend the 2012 Shakespeare Association of America conference. Read More
Video highlights from the Korean Tempest film screening and colloquium which took place in Washington, D.C. November 4-5, 2011. Read More
The foremost Korean director and playwright Oh Tae-suk visits DC (his Tempest won the Herald Angel award at the 2011 Edinburgh Int’l Festival). Read More
“Egyptian Theatre Between Local Contexts and Global Audiences: Shakespeare as a Case Study,” the five-hour workshop will involve about 20 directing and drama criticism students and recent graduates from Cairo-area theatre departments. Read More
The Edinburgh International Festival’s official drama opened on Saturday with a double dose of Shakespeare: King Lear in Mandarin and The Tempest in Korean.
Read Martin Hoyle’s review from the Financial Times.
Read the review from the Edinburgh Festival Guide.
The Global Shakespeares editors, collaborators and advisory board members have been a major presence at the World Shakespeare Congress meeting in Prague this week, chairing 10 events, offering 11 seminar papers and 11 talks at panels and workshops Read More
MIT faculty and collaborators from across the world create new classes that integrate theatrical and literary approaches to Global Shakespeare using the materials of the archive as well as on-line multimedia essay tools and virtual and in-person sharing of classes. Read More
The editors of Global Shakespeares and collaborators in MIT’s Global Shakespeare Curricular Initiative and HamletWorks will be well represented at the World Shakespeare Conference in Prague Conference, July 16-22, 2011. Read More
There is a great article on Global Shakespeares in Gazeta do Povo, Parana Brazil, printed on April 30, 2011. Gazeta do Povo is one of the largest daily newspapers in Brazil, founded in 1919.
Many thanks to our collaborators, Profs. Liana Leão, Célia Arns de Miranda, and Anna Stegh Camati!
Brazilian professors Liana Leão, Célia Arns de Miranda, and Anna Stegh Camati.
Read the article in the Gazeta do Povo: “A Global and Virtual Shakespeare”
Workshop description: The age of global Shakespeares and digital video archive is upon us. Read More
Three Global Shakespeares editors spoke at the biennial meeting of the International Shakespeare Conference in Stratford-upon-Avon in August 2010 Read More
I’m delighted to welcome the Brazilian Regional Editors of this online archive. Read More
Peter Donaldson, Ford Foundation Professor of Humanities at MIT, presented a paper at the humanities+digital conference on May 21, 2010, at MIT. Read More
