Global Shakespeare and Visual Art

Mario Murgia is Professor of English, Translation, and Comparative Literature at the National Autonomous University of Mexico. Islam Issa is Professor of Literature and History at Birmingham City University, UK.

From Zulu and Siberian wood sculptures to Turkish caricatures and Egyptian films; from to nineteenth-century Mexico to a colonial era fortress near the El Ain oasis in the UAE; from Délacroix to Doré to Millais and Kokoschka to Japanese manga; from stained glass “Shakespeare” windows in the former British colonies to futuristic spaceships and performing robots (doing the graveyard scene in Hamlet); from outlaw street art and public monuments in Birmingham to a Taylor Swift “Shakepop” video (“The Fate of Ophelia”), Islam Issa and Mario Murgia bring together essays by distinguished scholars that show us how Shakespeare has been seen in the past, how he is seen in popular culture today, and how we may imagine he’ll be seen in the future. This book is at once thought provoking and delightful to read. Through it, we “see” global Shakespeare with compound eyes.

• List of AbbreviationsList of FiguresList of ContributorsForeword by Paul Edmondson (Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, UK)AcknowledgementsPart I: Panoramas1. “To view his countless glory”: Around the World with Visual ShakespeareIslam Issa (Birmingham City University, UK) and Mario Murgia (National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico)2. Teaching Shakespeare with Visual ArtMarissa Greenberg (University of New Mexico, USA)Part II: Visualizations3. Shakespeare’s Lucrece and “a piece of skilful painting”David Scott Kastan (Yale University, USA)4. Delacroix and HamletDavid Roberts (Birmingham City University, UK)5. Doré’s Collaborative and Unfinished Illustrations of ShakespeareAngelica Duran (Purdue University, USA)6. “O well-painted passion!”: Othello on Canvas and in Nineteenth-Century MexicoMario Murgia(National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico)7. “The Miracle of Nothing.”: Kokoschka’s King LearWendy Furman-Adams (Whittier College, USA)8. Visual Representations of The Tempest in ArgentinaMaría Inés Castagnino and Lucas Margarit (University of Buenos Aires, Argentina)Part III: Transformations9. Shakespeare in Stained Glass Across the GlobeBeverley Sherry (University of Sydney, Australia)10. Making “Zulu-ness” Visible: Sibiya and the Umabatha WoodcutsLaurence Wright (North-West University, South Africa)11. “What wood is this before us?”: Shakespeare in Siberian PineHelen Hopkins (Birmingham City University, UK)12. Performing Shakespeare in the UAEPaul Innes (United Arab Emirates University, UAE)13. Caricatures and Turkish ShakespearesMurat Ögütcü (Adiyaman University, Turkey)Part IV: Reimaginings14. New Woman, New Emotions: Shakespeare in Nineteenth-Century BengalShormishtha Panja (University of Delhi, India)15. Egyptian Shakespeareana in Twentieth-Century Film: Reimagining Female Agency and TragedyNoha Mohamad Mohamad Ibraheem (Cairo University, Egypt)16. The Diasporic Power of Sakuishi’s MangaShinji Yamamoto (Aoyama Gakuin University, Japan)17. Urban Shakespeare: Civic and Public Art in England’s Second CityIslam Issa (Birmingham City University, UK)18. Imagining/Imaging Future ShakespeareKevin Wetmore, Jr. (Loyola Marymount University, USA)Afterword by David Currell (Australian Catholic University, Australia)