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Global Shakespeares as Methodology
- Author(s):
- Alexa Alice Joubin (see profile)
- Date:
- 2013
- Group(s):
- CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century, CLCS Global Anglophone, GS Drama and Performance, LLC East Asian, LLC Shakespeare
- Subject(s):
- Digital humanities, Drama, English literature, Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
- Item Type:
- Article
- Tag(s):
- comparative literature, digital humanities, global south, intercultural theatre, Shakespeare, Early modern studies, Film studies
- Permanent URL:
- http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/M68G73
- Abstract:
- Having reached a critical mass of participants, performances and the study of Shakespeare in different cultural contexts are changing how we think about globalization. The idea of global Shakespeares has caught on because of site-specific imaginations involving early modern and modern Globe theatres that aspired to perform the globe. Seeing global Shakespeares as a methodology rather than as appendages of colonialism, as political rhetorics, or as centerpieces in a display of exotic cultures situates us in a postnational space that is defined by fluid cultural locations rather than by nation-states. This framework helps us confront archival silences in the record of globalization, understand the spectral quality of citations of Shakespeare and mobile artworks, and reframe the debate about cultural exchange. Global Shakespeares as a field registers the shifting locus of anxiety between cultural particularity and universality. This article explores the promise and perils of political articulations of cultural difference and suggests new approaches to performances in marginalized or polyglot spaces.
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- Published as:
- Journal article
- Status:
- Published
- Last Updated:
- 6 years ago
- License:
- Attribution-NoDerivatives
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