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  Shakespeare: New Voices , edited by Ian McCormick   CONTENTS  1    Voices of Resistance and Renewal Ian McCormick   2    Shakespeare, Social Justice and the Struggle for Relevance Ananya Dhawan Deol      3    The International Ramifications of Antonio’s Debt Alex Flores            4    ‘Mislike me not for my complexion’: Black Characters in Shakespeare’s Plays E. Kalu Amah      5    Rewriting Caliban and Epistemic Struggle: a Postcolonial Reading Across Texts. Chijioke Izuegbunem       6    ‘I Grant I am a Woman’: Gender Inequity, Women’s Non-Traditional Casting, and Why Modern Shakespeare Should be ‘Woke’ Emily Pickett        7    Class Agenda? Radicals and Reactionaries on Stage/in the Classroom Lisa Gould-Crooke ...

    Shakespeare: New Voices,  edited by Ian McCormick In Shakespeare: New Voices a diverse range of contributors were asked to rethink, reframe, and recontextualize Shakespeare’s drama in relation to contemporary debates across the academy and public discourse. Accordingly, this new collection presents a variety of new voices emerging out of contemporary Shakespeare and performance studies in the wider context of a global age of culture wars, identity politics, digital transformation, and pedagogic innovation. Shakespeare: New Voices is a bold and necessary collection for our times. It not only examines Shakespeare’s place in twenty-first-century culture but also interrogates the role that literature, performance, and theory can play in social justice movements, intensifying culture wars, and emancipatory pedagogy. In an era marked by global unrest, heightened attention to social justice, and a backlash against ‘wokeness’, Shakespeare’s drama persists as a...