The Shakespearean International Yearbook 19: Special Section, Shakespeare and Refugees The Shakespearean International Yearbook Series

Publishing its nineteenth volume, The Shakespearean International Yearbook surveys the present state of Shakespeare studies, addressing issues that are fundamental to our interpretive encounter with Shakespeare?s work and his time, across the whole spectrum of his literary output. Contributions are solicited from scholars across the field, from both hemispheres of the globe. New trends are evaluated from the point of view of established scholarship, and emerging work in the field is encouraged. Each issue includes a special section under the guidance of a specialist Guest Editor, along with coverage of the current state of the field in other aspects. An essential reference tool for scholars of early modern literature and culture, this annual publication captures, from year to year, current and developing thought in Shakespeare scholarship and theater practice worldwide. There is a particular emphasis on Shakespeare studies in global contexts.

Preface

Tom Bishop and Alexa Alice Joubin

General Editors

List of Contributors

Part I: Shakespeare and Refugees

Introduction

Ton Hoenselaars and Stephen O’Neill

I: Dangerous Conversations / Communities

1. Refugee Theatre: Hospitality and Dangerous Conversations in The Jungle and Hamlet

David Ruiter, University of California, San Diego

2. In the eye of the storm: Refugee-Responsive Shakespeare on the Italian stage

Sara Soncini, University of Pisa

3. Hamlet in the "Jungle": Representing Shakespeare in the Calais Refugee Camp"

Amy L. Smith, Kalamazoo College

II: Stories

4. An Interview with Ayham Majid Agha

Margaret Litvin, Boston University

5. Foreigners and Strangers: Theatre, History and a City of Refuge

Tony Howard, University of Warwick

6. Dramatic Escapes: Elisabeth Bergner, the Vanishing Refugee, and As You Like It

Robert Sawyer, East Tennessee State University

III: Ethics

7. "This is the Strangers’ Case": Shakespeare, Sir Thomas More, and Refugees

Sabine Schülting, Freie Universität, Berlin

8. Humanist Shakespeare? Xennophobia and Compassion in Sir Thomas More

Anne Sophie Refskou, University of Surrey

Part Two: Latin American Shakespeares

9. "This Island’s Mine": Ecocritical Caribbean Tempests

Jennifer Flaherty, Georgia College

10. Recovering Linguistic Multiplicity in Nicanor Parra’s "Antipoetic" Translation of King Lear

Belén Bistué, Conicet, Universidad Nacional de Cuyo

11. "Enter Time, the Chorus": The Winter’s Tale by Companhia Atores de Laura, Brazil

Aline de Mello Sanfelici, Universidade Tecnológica Federal do Paraná, and José Roberto O’Shea, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina

12. Possessed by Shakespeare: Hamlet and Tomás González’s El bello arte de ser

Donna Woodford-Gormley, New Mexico Highlands University

13. Anti-Shakespeare Rhetoric and Colombia’s "Theatre for Peace"

Kevin A. Quarmby, The College of St. Scholastica

14. "Sir, You’re Robb’d": Iago and the Ethics and Aesthetics of Adapting Shakespeare in Brazil

Cristiane Busato Smith, Osher Lifelong Learning Institute Arizona State University, and Liana de Camargo Leão, Universidade Federal do Paraná

Part III: Shakespeare in German Translation

15. Translating Orchids: Rhizomes in German Shakespeare Translation

Christian Smith, Independent Scholar

General Editors:

Tom Bishop is a professor of English at the University of Auckland, New Zealand

Alexa Alice Joubin is a professor of English, women’s, gender and sexuality studies; theatre; and international affairs at George Washington University, in Washington, DC, US, where she serves as founding codirector of the Digital Humanities Institute.

Guest Editors:

Ton Hoenselaars is professor in Early Modern English Literature at the University of Utrecht.

Stephen O’Neill is an Associate Professor at Maynooth University.