Challenging Global Shakespeare: Non-Anglo-American Shakespeare in Anglophone Academic Discourse, 1970s-2010s by Stan Reiner van Zon ISBN 9789465225951, 9465225959 instant download

Challenging Global Shakespeare: Non-Anglo-American Shakespeare in Anglophone Academic Discourse, 1970s-2010s by Stan Reiner van Zon ISBN 9789465225951, 9465225959 instant download

This dissertation investigates the position of non-Anglo-American Shakespeare within English-language Shakespeare studies, focusing on the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. It argues that although studies devoted to Shakespeare as produced outside Britain and America (now often called "Global Shakespeare") have always been part of academic Shakespeare scholarship, these studies have occupied a paradoxical position of simultaneous inclusion and exclusion within a discipline otherwise centred on British and American Shakespeare. Through a combination of historical overviews and case studies, this dissertation examines how scholarship devoted to Shakespeare’s worldwide dissemination has related to the cultural authority of Anglo-American Shakespeare.