Shakespeare: New Voices - CONTENTS

 


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           

8   Teaching Shakespeare Insults First: A Case for Practical Shakespeare Introductions

Savannah Xaver

9   ‘The Milk of Human Kindness’

Jessica Tooker   

10   Trauma, PTSD to Recovery: Exploring the Journey of Shakespeare’s Tragic Heroes through the Lens of Optimality Theory

Kanak Kanti Bera and Sovan Tripathy      

11   Shattered Mirrors: the Consequences of Narcissism in Shakespeare's Parent-Child Relationships

Aglaia Maretta Venters 

12   Shedding New Light and Meaning in the Field of Shakespearean Canon: Reconstructing an Ecological Perspective

Shantanu Siuli  

13   Fixing Shakespeare, Breaking America: Translation, Turmoil, and the American Cultural Divide

Cason Murphy  

14   Nikos Velmos’s New Voice for Cleopatra: Rewriting Shakespeare from the Margins of Interwar Greece (1924)

Dimitra V. Dalpanagioti

15   Mimicry, Androgyny and the Biological Roots of Rosalind’s Strategy

Catherine Diamond        

16   Performative Dissonance: Shakespeare, Drag, and the Legal Regulation of Identity

Max Barrett       

17   ‘The Quality of Mercy is Not Strained’: Using Fanfiction to Teach and Understand The Merchant of Venice in an Era of Hate

Allison Duque   

18   Remaking and Reshaping Shakespeare through Fan Fiction

Bethany Smith  

19   Witchcraft as Statecraft: Women’s Agency in The Hollow Crown’s Adaptation of Shakespeare’s Henriad

Susan Kendrick 

20   Shakespearean Voodooism in Ray Bradbury’s ‘The Small Assassin’: Serendipitous Appropriation and Modernization of Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar

Nancy Ann Watanabe   

21   From Flesh to Puppet: Performance and Evolutionary Adaptation in BoÄŸaziçi Performing Arts Ensemble's Master Shakespeare

Gökçe Yetkin       

 

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