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Practicing Digital Shakespeare in Latin America: Case Studies from Argentina and Brazil
This chapter looks at two distinct but connected websites—Fundación Shakespeare Argentina and the “Shakespeare in Brazil” section of the MIT Global...
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Ecological Shakespeare: Shakespeare in Yosemite and the EarthShakes Alliance
This chapter details the methods and practices used to create productions for Shakespeare in Yosemite, an annual weekend of free, outdoor Shakespeare...
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Teaching Shakespeare in the Twenty-First Century
In this Introduction, Sasser and Atwood introduce the purpose of this collection and provide an overview of its contributing chapters. This...
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Curating Shakespeare in the North
During April and May 2016, the Library of the Literary and Philosophical Society in Newcastle upon Tyne (UK) hosted Shakespeare in the North, an...
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Green Shakespeare and the Environmental Studies Classroom
As early modern scholars and teachers, we often discuss the need to defend our field of study—to make Shakespeare relevant to our students and...
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Community Shakespeare: Access, Adaptation, Activism
This introductory chapter defines relevant terms and lays out several theories and methods central to the practice and study of community...
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“To Double Business Bound”: Shakespeare and Gen Ed
The opportunity to teach Shakespeare beyond the major often hinges on General Education requirements. At the University of Tennessee, where I teach,...
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Young Children’s Introduction to Mathematics in North America Between 1607 and 1865
In this chapter we consider the mathematics studied by young children—not yet 10 years of age—the eastern colonies during the seventeenth and...
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The Stranger’s Case: Exile in Shakespeare
This chapter reads Romeo and Juliet and Pericles as case studies of Shakespeare’s approach to migration. Situating Shakespeare’s work within the...
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Finding and Accessing Shakespeare Scholarship in the Global South: Digital Research and Bibliography
There was a time when articles about Shakespeare were published around the globe, but few knew where to find them all. Shakespeare studies thrived in...
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“Let Gentleness My Strong Enforcement Be”: Accessing San Quentin Prison with Inside-Out Shakespeare
When Shakespeare writes of “inaccessibility,” he often has in mind physical space, a rugged terrain, or an arboreal wilderness that tests his...
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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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Public Shakespeare: Public Works (New York City) and Public Acts (UK)
This chapter focuses on twinned applied theatre projects: Public Works, a program of the Public Theatre in New York City, and Public Acts, at the...
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Accessing Shakespeare in Performance: Northern Michigan University’s Stratford Festival Endowment Fund
“The most important theater we ever encounter as individuals is the theater we encounter when we’re young.” His snowy hair and beard glinting in the...
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Genius and Celebrity: Oscar Wilde in America
This chapter approaches Wilde in terms of the first proper celebrity and icon of the modern era through an analysis of his 1882 American...
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Shakespeare, Influence and Appropriation
Surveying recent interest in the various intersections of Shakespeare and the gothic, this chapter considers three aspects of these points of...
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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...