List of IllustrationsNotes on ContributorsEditors' Introduction1. Global Shakespeare and its Confrontation with Social Justice, Chris Thurman (Wits University, South Africa) and Sandra Young (University of Cape Town, south Africa)Section One: Scholarship and Social Justice: Questions for the Field2. Re-thinking 'Global Shakespeare' for Social Justice, Susan Bennett (University of Calgary, Canada)3. Caliban in an Era of Mass Migration, Linda Gregerson (University of Michigan, USA)4. What Makes Global Shakespeares an Exercise in Ethics? Alexa Alice Joubin (George Washington University, USA)Section Two: Resisting Racial Logics5. Making Whiteness out of 'Nothing': The Recurring Comedic Torture of (Pregnant) Black Women from Medieval to Modern, Dyese Elliott-Newton (UCLA, USA)6. Feeling in Justice: Racecraft and The Merchant of Venice, Derrick Higginbotham (University of Hawai’i at Manoa, USA)7. Marking Muslims: The Prince of Morocco and the Racialization of Islam in The Merchant of Venice, Hassana Moosa (Kings College, London, UK)Section Three: Imagining Freedom with Shakespeare8. Signing for Justice: Politicized Reading and Performative Writing in the Robben Island Shakespeare, Kai Wiegandt (Barenboim-Said Akademie, Berlin)9. 'Men at some times are masters of their fates': The Gallowfield Players perform Julius Caesar, Rowan Mackenzie (independent scholar, UK)Section Four: Placing Sex and Gender under Scrutiny10. The 'sign and semblance of her honour': Petrarchan Slander and Gender-based Violence in Three Shakespearean Plays, Kirsten Dey (University of Pretoria, South Africa)11. Open-gendered Casting in Shakespeare Performance, Abraham Stoll (University of San Diego, USA)12. Teaching Titus Andronicus and Ovidian Myth when Sexual Violence is on the Public Stage, Wendy Beth Hyman (Oberlin College, USA)NotesIndex

This collection probes the relationship between Shakespeare studies and the intractable forms of social injustice that infuse cultural, political and economic life, helping us to imagine what radical and transformative pedagogy, theatre-making and scholarship might look like.

Global Shakespeare Inverted challenges any tendency to view Global Shakespeare from the perspective of ‘centre’ versus ‘periphery’. Although the series may locate its critical starting point geographically, it calls into question the geographical bias that lurks within the very notion of the ‘global’. It provides a timely, constructive criticism of the present state of the field and establishes new and alternative methodologies that invert the relation of Shakespeare to the supposed ‘other’.Advisory boardSupriya Chaudhuri, Professor Emerita, Department of English, Jadavpur University, IndiaChanita Goodblatt, Professor of Foreign Literatures and Linguistics, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, IsraelDouglas Lanier, Professor of English, University of New Hampshire, United StatesSonia Massai, Professor of Shakespeare Studies, Sapienza University of Rome, ItalyAlfredo Michel Modenessi, Professor of English Literature, Drama and Translation, National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), MexicoAnne Sophie Refskou, Assistant Professor, Comparative Literature and Rhetoric, Aarhus University, DenmarkMotohashi Tetsuya, Professor of Cultural Studies, Tokyo Keizai University, JapanChris Thurman, Director of the Tsikinya-Chaka Centre, University of the Witwatersrand, South AfricaSandra Young, Professor of English Literary Studies, University of Cape Town, South Africa