Global Shakespeare is a myth. It is a myth that moves the world and moves…
Alexa Alice JoubinJanuary 3, 2025
Even though Shakespeare’s plays were initially performed by all-male casts, they were designed to appeal…
Alexa Alice JoubinSeptember 16, 2022
The concept of "interface" is often overlooked in the study of performances. The screen interface…
Alexa Alice JoubinSeptember 15, 2022
Even though Shakespeare has been regarded as an "English" playwright, characters in his plays hail…
Alexa Alice JoubinJuly 7, 2022
Shakespeare’s plays and motifs have been cited and appropriated in fragmentary forms on screen since…
Alexa Alice JoubinMay 14, 2022
Recently, anti-feminist, white nationalist, (trans)misogynist, anti-immigrant, and homophobic movements have used “genderism” to evoke a…
Alexa Alice JoubinApril 26, 2022
Multiple Shakespeare's characters lend themselves to be interpreted as transgender. Even though Shakespeare’s plays were…
Alexa Alice JoubinNovember 30, 2021
The moral agency that comes with the cultivation of ethical treatment of one another can…
Alexa Alice JoubinNovember 3, 2021
In the 1930s, the Soviet Union (USSR) lauded Shakespeare as a prophetic playwright who, while…
Natalia KhomenkoMay 18, 2021
How has COVID-19 affected cultural and digital globalization? Performing Shakespeare is an act of mediation between…
Alexa Alice JoubinMarch 25, 2021
The world needs good question askers as much as it needs good problem solvers. Before…
Alexa Alice JoubinMarch 3, 2021
Since the nineteenth century, stage and film directors have mounted hundreds of adaptations of Shakespeare…
Alexa Alice JoubinFebruary 17, 2021
Many screen and stage adaptations of the classics are informed by a philosophical investment in…
Alexa Alice JoubinOctober 12, 2020
Adaptations of the classics not only creates channels between geographic spaces but also connects different…
Alexa Alice JoubinOctober 12, 2020
The King's Speech (dir. Tom Hooper, 2010) portrays a figure that suffers from speech impairment.…
Alexa Alice JoubinDecember 10, 2019
Global Shakespeare can be studied through two interrelated concepts: performance as an act of citation…
Alexa Alice JoubinNovember 16, 2019
How might we engage with the "essence" of King Lear in a networked culture? Juxtaposing the…
Alexa Alice JoubinNovember 16, 2019
Cultural memory is actively constructed through embodied and political performances. Tang Xianzu and William Shakespeare,…
Alexa Alice JoubinNovember 16, 2019
Shakespeare is a local force to be reckoned with in the global marketplace and in…
Alexa Alice JoubinOctober 28, 2018
In the centuries since William Shakespeare's death, numerous stage and, more recently, film and television…
Alexa Alice JoubinOctober 26, 2018
On a sunny afternoon in early June, 2015, in a rehearsal room at the University…
Alexa Alice JoubinOctober 26, 2018
TNT theatre are currently on tour in China with Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream. Paul…
Alexa Alice JoubinDecember 6, 2017
The expectant audience for the Bitola Festival’s Richard III had been brought up to speed…
Randall MartinMarch 9, 2016
The audience was waiting to get into the basement playing space of the National Theatre.…
Randall MartinMarch 9, 2016
Last night the local mayor who had once played Hamlet in the state theatre inaugurated…
Randall MartinMarch 9, 2016
What does it feel like to watch Shakespeare’s darkest story of civil war in a…
Randall MartinMarch 9, 2016
In 2012, the Belarus Free Theatre participated in the Globe to Globe festival, staging King…
Natalia KhomenkoAugust 17, 2015
This article investigates one of the most traditional yet uncanny literary recursions in recent practices…
Alexa Alice JoubinJuly 20, 2014
The third installment of Sulayman Al-Bassam’s Arab Shakespeare Trilogy premiered in New York in 2011.…
Graham HoldernessJuly 26, 2013
Shakespeare touched the Arab world astonishingly early. In 1608, during the 3rd voyage of the…
Graham HoldernessJuly 26, 2013
On April Fool’s Day 1607 the crew of the Red Dragon weighed anchor off the…
Graham HoldernessJuly 25, 2013
Richard III is one of Shakespeare’s best-known characters, a familiarity independent of the history plays,…
Graham HoldernessJuly 25, 2013
There’s still something of novelty about that concatenation “Arab Shakespeare”. Compared to many topics under…
Graham HoldernessJuly 25, 2013
Sulayman Al-Bassam’s Richard III: An Arab Tragedy premiered at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon…
Graham HoldernessJuly 25, 2013
“We cling to the old culture, and fight for it against ourselves. But it must…
MIT Global ShakespearesJuly 25, 2013
Music has always been an important element in Shakespeare’s plays, assisting the audience in understanding…
Kendra Preston LeonardJuly 24, 2013
Some people register a sense of place through sweet memories of taste and sounds, others…
Alexa Alice JoubinMay 24, 2013
Touring theatre is a place where theatre studies and globalization come into contact. The year…
Alexa Alice JoubinJanuary 30, 2013
Nós do Morro (Us from the Hillside) is a community based theatre company and school…
Cristiane Busato SmithJanuary 8, 2013
First performed in a workshop with Ariane Mnouchkine in 2000 and later toured, in an…
Haylie SwensonSeptember 11, 2012
The World Shakespeare Festival in London in 2012 is arguably one of the most important…
Alexa Alice JoubinJuly 29, 2012
Can Shakespeare’s plays give a “local habitation” to the “airy nothing” of globalization? Shakespeare is…
Alexa Alice JoubinJuly 29, 2012
In Brazil, the first translation of a whole play by Shakespeare appeared in 1842, from…
Aimara da Cunha ResendeJuly 25, 2012
Excerpted from "The Paradox of Female Agency: Ophelia and East Asian Sensibilities," in The Afterlife…
Alexa Alice JoubinMay 7, 2012
Literary translation is a love affair. Depending on the context, it could be love at…
Alexa Alice JoubinFebruary 7, 2012
Tang Shu-Wing’s approach in Titus Andronicus 2.0 (Hong Kong: Tang Shu-wing Theatre Studio, 2009) shows…
Howard ChoyJanuary 23, 2012
The universalized Shakespeare stream is seen through a Marathi production, directed by Sharad Bhuthadia, by…
Poonam TrivediJune 22, 2010
1832 Scenes, Lear (III.iii), English, Chowringhee Theatre, Calcutta. 1880 Atipidacarita, Marathi, tr./adapt. S M Ranade,…
Poonam TrivediJune 22, 2010
King Lear is an appropriate play with which to illustrate these tendencies and periodisation in…
Poonam TrivediJune 22, 2010
