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  • Profile picture of Rich Willis

    Rich Willis deposited “Three instances of “it” made “more agreeable” in “As You Like It” breathed abroad are: in the group Group logo of LLC ShakespeareLLC Shakespeare on MLA Commons 2 months, 3 weeks ago

    “As You Like It” breathed abroad is as in an understanding of compare to the treatment of Marlowe’s “Hero and Leander” in the name of Sir Thomas Walsingham and his wife Lady Audrey.

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    Kevin A. Quarmby deposited Shamanistic Shakespeare: Korea’s Colonization of Hamlet in the group Group logo of LLC ShakespeareLLC Shakespeare on MLA Commons 3 months, 1 week ago

    “Shamanistic Shakespeare: Korea’s Colonization of Hamlet” offers a timely reminder about the dangers of imposing a reformulated national myth on international Shakespeare productions. Focusing on a London performance of Korea’s Yohangza Theatre Company’s shamanized Hamlet, this case study invites far broader consideration of the readability of glo…[Read more]

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    Alexa Alice Joubin deposited “Screening Social Justice: Performing Reparative Shakespeare against Vocal Disability.” Adaptation, October 2020: 1-19 in the group Group logo of LLC ShakespeareLLC Shakespeare on MLA Commons 3 months, 1 week ago

    Many screen and stage adaptations of the classics are informed by a philosophical investment in literature’s reparative merit, a preconceived notion that performing the canon can make one a better person. Inspirational narratives, in particular, have instrumentalized the canon to serve socially reparative purposes. Social recuperation of disabled…[Read more]

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    Alexa Alice Joubin deposited “Global Studies.” The Arden Research Handbook of Contemporary Shakespeare Criticism, ed. Evelyn Gajowski (London: Bloomsbury, 2021), pp. 247-261 in the group Group logo of LLC ShakespeareLLC Shakespeare on MLA Commons 3 months, 1 week ago

    Global studies enable us to examine deceivingly harmonious images of Shakespeare. This chapter focuses on the modern period and introduces readers to a number of key concepts in Shakespeare and global studies, namely censorship and redaction, genre, gender, race, and politics of reception. Performing Shakespeare not only creates channels between…[Read more]

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    Alexa Alice Joubin started the topic MLA election in the discussion Group logo of LLC ShakespeareLLC Shakespeare on MLA Commons 3 months, 2 weeks ago

    The MLA office asked candidates for election to a forum’s executive committee to post here.

    Hi, everyone! My name is Alexa, and I teach Shakespeare, race, and gender in the Department of English in George Washington University. I would like to introduce myself.

    I chaired the MLA committee on the New Variorum Edition of Shakespeare and served on…[Read more]

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    Alexa Alice Joubin deposited Epilogue, Chinese Shakespeares: Two Centuries of Cultural Exchange (Columbia University Press, 2009, 2011, 2015). Modern Language Association Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Comparative Literary Studies in the group Group logo of LLC ShakespeareLLC Shakespeare on MLA Commons 6 months ago

    The epilogue tackles the ramifications of these new modes of inscribing temporally and visually ambiguous articulations of Shakespeare and China into a global vernacular in theater (Lin Zhaohua’s Richard III) and cinema (Feng Xiaogang’s The Banquet). A paradox of infatuation with Asian visuality and rejection of ethnic authenticity emerged in the…[Read more]

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    Alexa Alice Joubin deposited Chapter 1, Chinese Shakespeares: Two Centuries of Cultural Exchange (Columbia University Press, 2009, 2011, 2015). Modern Language Association Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Comparative Literary Studies in the group Group logo of LLC ShakespeareLLC Shakespeare on MLA Commons 6 months ago

    This chapter, “Owning Chinese Shakespeares,” pursues the critical concept of localization and critiques the fidelity-derived discourse about cultural ownership. How were Chinese Shakespeares used as a kind of staged utopia of modernity?

    Underlying this study are three related lines of inquiry united by what might be called locality criticism, t…[Read more]

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    Alexa Alice Joubin deposited Prologue, Chinese Shakespeares: Two Centuries of Cultural Exchange (Columbia University Press, 2009, 2011, 2015). Modern Language Association Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Comparative Literary Studies in the group Group logo of LLC ShakespeareLLC Shakespeare on MLA Commons 6 months ago

    Named the Writer of the Millennium, Shakespeare has come full circle and become a cliché, embraced by marketers and contested by intellectuals. Similar narratives about China’s rise in global stature have been told with equal gusto, championed and denounced in turn by optimists and critics. If Shakespeare now has worldwide currency, how is the se…[Read more]

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    Alexa Alice Joubin deposited Preface, The Shakespearean International Yearbook Volume 18 in the group Group logo of LLC ShakespeareLLC Shakespeare on MLA Commons 6 months, 1 week ago

    Thanks to Karl Marx’s references in his political treatises, Shakespeare held a significant place in a number of communist and other left-authoritarian countries, including China and the USSR. And although there were themes in Shakespeare that turned out to be inconvenient for communist ideology, other Shakespearean plays were put into service. I…[Read more]

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    Kevin A. Quarmby deposited Falstaff’s Baffled “Rabbit Sucker” and “Poulter’s Hare” in 1 Henry IV in the group Group logo of LLC ShakespeareLLC Shakespeare on MLA Commons 6 months, 2 weeks ago

    In 1 Henry IV, Falstaff enacts his histrionic mock deposition scene, only to be usurped by England’s true heir, Prince Hal. Irate at his actorly demotion, Falstaff praises his own performance skills, while suggesting that, if found lacking, he should receive a punishment befitting his knightly status. Likening Falstaff to small game hanging in a s…[Read more]

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    Jeffrey Griswold deposited Human Insufficiency and the Politics of Accommodation in King Lear in the group Group logo of LLC ShakespeareLLC Shakespeare on MLA Commons 6 months, 4 weeks ago

    By contextualizing the trope of the “unaccommodated man” within Aristotelian notions of insufficiency, this article demonstrates that King Lear theorizes a communitarian politics, rather than one founded in sovereign authority. For late sixteen-century thinkers such as Richard Hooker, Pierre La Primaudaye, and Robert Persons, the vulnerability of…[Read more]

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    Murat Öğütcü deposited Old Wives’ Humour: George Peele’s The Old Wives Tale in the group Group logo of LLC ShakespeareLLC Shakespeare on MLA Commons 8 months, 1 week ago

    George Peele’s The Old Wives Tale (published 1595) was performed by the Queen’s Men in the 1580s. Initially, the play has been dismissed by several critics as a vulgar and cheap entertainment without much value. Yet, the metadramatic techniques employed in the play sheds light to how humour could be effectively triggered in the respective per…[Read more]

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    Louise Geddes deposited Some Tweeting Cleopatra: Crossing Borders on and off the Shakespearean Stage in the group Group logo of LLC ShakespeareLLC Shakespeare on MLA Commons 9 months ago

    This essay will examine the multiple performance texts that exist in Ivo Van Hove’s transcultural and transmedial performance event, The Roman Tragedies (which toured worldwide from 2007 to 2013) to suggest that, in today’s “spreadable” culture (to borrow from Henry Jenkins), appropriative use becomes the bridge that can unify ‘work’ and ‘event.…[Read more]

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    Cristina León Alfar deposited Speaking Truth to Power as Feminist Ethics in Richard III in the group Group logo of LLC ShakespeareLLC Shakespeare on MLA Commons 9 months, 1 week ago

    In this essay Queen Margaret’s curses in Richard III become part of a feminist ethics on the early modern stage. As a parrhesiast, in Foucault’s terms, Margaret speaks truth to power and claims a right of citizenship. That Margaret elicits universal revulsion from the other characters while also holding a unique, though not untroubled, pos…[Read more]

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    Murat Öğütcü deposited “Von Freunden und Fraktionen: Die Historiendramen von Shakespeare.” [Of Friends and Factions: Shakespeare‟s History Plays.] in the group Group logo of LLC ShakespeareLLC Shakespeare on MLA Commons 10 months, 2 weeks ago

    In the Late Elizabethan Period, factionalism complicated the notion of, especially, male friendship. The scarcity of
    financial resources of the royal patronage, the arbitrary distribution of favours, and bottom-up pressures of patronees
    further problematized a healthy relationship among patrons and patronees and among friends. The horizontal…[Read more]

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    Cristina León Alfar deposited Women and Shakespeare’s Cuckoldry Plays: Shifting Narratives of Marital Betrayal in the group Group logo of LLC ShakespeareLLC Shakespeare on MLA Commons 10 months, 2 weeks ago

    How does a woman become a whore? What are the discursive dynamics making a woman a whore? And, more importantly, what are the discursive mechanics of unmaking? In Women and Shakespeare’s Cuckoldry Plays: Shifting Narratives of Marital Betrayal, Cristina León Alfar pursues these questions to tease out familiar cultural stories about female se…[Read more]

  • Profile picture of Alexa Alice Joubin

    Alexa Alice Joubin deposited “Can the Biopic Subjects Speak? Disembodied Voices in The King’s Speech and The Theory of Everything.” A Companion to the Biopic, ed. Deborah Cartmell and Ashley D. Polasek (Chichester, UK: Wiley-Blackwell, 2020), 269-282 in the group Group logo of LLC ShakespeareLLC Shakespeare on MLA Commons 1 year, 1 month ago

    The adaptations of King George VI’s and Stephen Hawking’s life stories show their uneasy relationship to the “troubled-white-male-genius” genre and to the vocal embodiment of their subjects who lose and gain a voice through therapy, technology, and their will to live a full life. The films carefully skirt the edges of public disgust and pity of…[Read more]

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    Alexa Alice Joubin deposited “Others within: Ethics in the age of global Shakespeare.” Routledge Handbook of Shakespeare and Global Appropriation, ed. Christy Desmet, Sujata Iyengar, and Miriam Jacobson (London: Routledge, 2020), pp. 25-36 in the group Group logo of LLC ShakespeareLLC Shakespeare on MLA Commons 1 year, 2 months ago

    This chapter theorizes global Shakespeare through two interrelated concepts: performance as an act of citation and the ethics of citation. Bringing the concept of performance as citation and the ethics of citation together, this chapter argues that acts of appropriation carry with them strong ethical implications. A crucial, ethical component of…[Read more]

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    Alexa Alice Joubin deposited “Performing Commemoration: The Cultural Politics of Locating Tang Xianzu and Shakespeare.” Asian Theatre Journal 36.2 (Fall 2019): 275-280 in the group Group logo of LLC ShakespeareLLC Shakespeare on MLA Commons 1 year, 3 months ago

    Cultural memory is actively constructed through embodied and political performances. Tang Xianzu and William Shakespeare, two “national poets” of unequal global stature, have recently become vehicles for British and Chinese cultural diplomacy and exchange during their quatercentenary in 2016. The culture of commemoration is a key factor in Tang’s…[Read more]

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    Alexa Alice Joubin deposited “King Lear on the small screen and its pedagogical implications,” in Shakespeare on Screen: King Lear, ed. Victoria Bladen, Sarah Hatchuel, and Nathalie Vienne-Guerrin (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019). in the group Group logo of LLC ShakespeareLLC Shakespeare on MLA Commons 1 year, 3 months ago

    As a work that survives and appears in more than one form, King Lear has a vexing problem of interpretation and a rich opportunity for the study of textual and cultural variants. The play begins with an aging monarch staging a fantastical, paradoxical final act as a king. It lures us toward a final act of interpretation to nail down the nature of…[Read more]

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