Year
2024
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Language
English
Pages
18
ISBN
978-1-39951-666-2
Last Update
16-Apr-2026
Keywords
Education
This essay is written from my conviction that there is no point to Shakespeare in the twenty-first century if the stakes of Shakespeare performance, scholarship, and pedagogy are not firmly anchored in the anticolonial (as opposed to the colonial), the reparative (as opposed to the exploitative), and the just (as opposed to the overtly or covertly accepting of the injustice of imperialism). The outsize presence of Shakespeare in the world of letters and theater today is a direct result of English imperialism, and I must begin by stating that fact without reservation. Just as I take Shakespeare’s worldwide presence today...
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