Shakespeare and Latinidad

Trevor Boffone is the founder of the 50 Playwrights Project. He is a Lecturer in the Women’s, Gender & Sexuality Studies Program at the University of Houston. He is the author of Renegades: Digital Dance Cultures from Dubsmash to TikTok (Oxford University Press, 2021). He is the co-editor of Encuentro: Latinx Performance for the New American Theater (Northwestern University Press, 2019) and Nerds, Goths, Geeks, and Freaks: Outsiders in Chicanx and Latinx Young Adult Literature (University Press of Mississippi, 2020). Carla Della Gatta is a theatre historian and performance scholar. She is Assistant Professor of English at Florida State University. She received the J Leeds Barroll Dissertation Prize from the Shakespeare Association of America for her work on Shakespeare and Latinidad. She has published widely in journals such as Shakespeare Survey, Shakespeare Studies, and Bulletin of the Comediantes. Her monograph, Latinx Shakespeares: The Staging of Intracultural Theatre, is in process.

This book offers a unique and wonderfully broad collection of essays that introduce the reader to an important and little-known trend in Shakespeare and theatre studies. The editors have included essays by leading theatre artists, playwrights, directors, actors and scholars who celebrate Shakespeare as seen through the multiple perspectives of Latinx Shakespeares as performance, as literature and as community-building through professional and community-based theatre companies from coast to coast.

• Introduction: Shakespeare and Latinidad, Trevor Boffone and Carla Della GattaPart I: Shakespeare in the U.S. Latinx Borderlands1. Staging Shakespeare For Latinx Identity and Mexican Subjectivity: Marqués: A Narco-Macbeth, Carla Della Gatta2. ¡O Romeo!: Shakespeare on the Altar of Día de los Muertos, Olga Sanchez Saltveit3. Passion’s Slave: Reminiscences on Latinx Shakespeares in Performance, Frankie J. Alvarez4. The Power of Borderlands Shakespeares: Seres Jaime Magaña’s The Tragic Corrido of Romeo and Lupe, Katherine Gillen and Adrianna M. SantosPart II: Making Shakespeare Latinx5. In a Shakespearean Key, Caridad Svich6. Caliban’s Island: Gender, Queernesss and Latinidad in Theatre for Young Audiences, Diana Burbano7. La Voz de Shakespeare: Empowering Latinx Communities to Speak, Own and Embody Shakespeare’s Texts, Cynthia DeCure Santos8. "Shakespeare’s Ghosts: Staging Colonial Histories in New Mexico, Marissa Greenberg9. Diálogo: Henry Godinez and José Luis Valenzuela on Translation and Adaptation Shakespeare Through the Latinx Voice, Michelle Lopez-RiosPart III: Shakespeare in Latinx Classrooms and Communities10. Shakespeare With, For and By Latinx Youth: Assumptions, Access and Assets, Roxanne Schroeder-Arce11. Celebrating Flippancy: Latinas in Miami Talk Back to Shakespeare, James Sutton12. Diálogo: David Lozano and José Cruz González on Making Shakespeare Relevant to Latinx Communities13. Romeo y Julieta: A Spanish-Language Shakespeare in the Park in Spanish, Daphnie Sicre14. Politics, Poetry and Popular Music: Remixing Neruda’s Romeo y Julieta, Jerry Ruiz15. ‘Lleno de Tejanidad’: Staging a Bilingual Comedy of Errors in Central Texas, Joe FaloccoPart IV: Translating Shakespeare in Ashland16. Creating a Canon of Latinx Shakespeares: The Oregon Shakespeare Festival's Play on!, Trevor Boffone17. What I Learned from My Shakespeare Staycation with Macbeth and Richard III, Migdalia Cruz18. Willful Invisibility: Translating William Shakespeare’s The Reign of King Edward III, Octavio Solis19. Diálogo: Daniel José Molina and Alejandra Escalante on Performing Shakespearean Characters as Latinx20. What’s with the Spanish, Dude? Identity Development, Language Acquisition and Shame While Coaching Oregon Shakespeare Festival’s La Comedia of Errors, Micha EspinosaContributor BiographiesAcknowledgmentsIndex