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Identity Shakespeare: L.A. Women’s Shakespeare Company and Harlem Shakespeare Festival
This chapter provides company histories of the Los Angeles Women’s Shakespeare Company (LAWSC), founded by Lisa Wolpe in 1993, and of Take Wing and...
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Shakespeare Pedagogy and Twenty-First Century Multicultural Sensibilities
Owing to the backlash against the tepid increase in the cultural studies approach to teaching of literary texts, many teachers in the academy have...
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Island Shakespeare: Hamlet in the Faroe Islands
This chapter describes the first-ever production of Hamlet in the Faroe Islands, a self-governing archipelago of the Kingdom of Denmark, located...
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Culture and Colonialism: The 1916 Shakespeare Tercentenary in Egypt
The 300th anniversary of William Shakespeare’s death in 1916 coincided with an unprecedented political crisis across the globe. The outbreak of the...
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Introduction: Memorialising Shakespeare, Memorialising Ourselves
This introductory chapter starts by situating Shakespeare commemoration in the context of recent theory on cultural and collective memory. It then...
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Teaching and Studying Shakespeare in Higher Education in Early Twentieth-Century Japan
This chapter considers how teaching and studying Shakespeare evolved in higher education institutions in early twentieth century Japan. The first...
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Yamasaki Seisuke and the Shakespeare for Children Series in Japan
This chapter examines the history, performance and reception of the Shakespeare for Children series, established in 1995 by actor and director...
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French Shakespeare: From Victor Hugo to Patrice Chéreau
The near coincidence of Shakespeare's 450th birthday and the quatercentenary of his death encouraged the Société Française Shakespeare (SFS) to...
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Commemorating Shakespeare Through Dance and Music, 1964–2016
Dance adaptations of Shakespeare occupy a strange place in contemporary culture. While a wordless medium might seem incompatible with Shakespeare’s...
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Adaptations of Elizabeth I and Shakespeare by Clemence Dane
Clemence Dane (Winifred Ashton) deserves attention because of the longevity of her ideas through her adaptions and their legacy in contemporary film....
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Ludwig Becker’s Shakespeare
This essay looks at two supposed likenesses of William Shakespeare—the one, a death-mask, and the other, a miniature deathbed portrait—that aroused...