Notes on contributorsAcknowledgementsIntroduction Boika Sokolova (University of Notre Dame, London, UK) and Janice Valls-Russell (University Paul-Valéry, Montpellier, France)PART ONE Relocating otherness: the Other-withinInduction 1 Lawrence Guntner (Germany)1. ‘Venice’ is elsewhere: the Stranger’s locality, or, Italian ‘blackness’ in twenty-first-century stagings of Othello Anna Maria Cimitile (University of Naples 'L'Orientale', Italy)2. Refracting the racial Other into the Other-within in two Bulgarian adaptations of Othello Boika Sokolova (Unoversity of Notre Dame, London, UK) and Kirilka Stavreva (Cornell College, USA)3. Estranged Strangers: Krzysztof Warlikowski’s Shylock and Othello in African Tales after Shakespeare (2011) Aleksandra Sakowska (Shakespeare Institute, UK)4. Drags, dyes, and death in Venice: The Merchant of Venice (2004) and Othello (2012) in Belgrade, Serbia Zorica Becanovic Nikolic (University of Belgrade, Serbia)5. The Merchant of Venice in France (2001 and 2017): deconstructing a malaise Janice Valls-Russell (University Paul-Valéry, Montpellier, France)PART TWO New nationalisms, migrants: imperfect resolutionsInduction 2 Lawrence Guntner (Germany)6. ‘Barbarous temper’, ‘hideous violence’ and ‘mountainish inhumanity’: stage encounters with The Merchant of Venice in Romania Nicoleta Cinpoes (University of Worcester, UK)7. Staging The Merchant of Venice in Hungary: politics, prejudice and languages of hatred Natália Pikli (Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary)8. Dutch negotiations with otherness in times of crisis: Othello (2006) and The Arab of Amsterdam (2008) Coen Heijes (University of Groningen, the Netherlands)9. ‘Were I the Moor, I would not be Iago’: radical empathy in two Portuguese performances of Othello Francesca Rayner (Universidade do Minho, Portugal)10. A tragedy? Othello and The Merchant of Venice in Germany during the 2015–2016 ‘refugee crisis’ Bettina Boecker (University of Munich, Germany)PART THREE Performative propositionsInduction 3 Lawrence Guntner (Germany)11. The Merchant in Venice in the Venetian Ghetto (2016): Director Karin Coonrod in conversation with Boika Sokolova (University of Notre Dame, London, UK) and Kirilka Stavreva (Cornell College, USA)12. Inverting Othello in France (2019): Director Arnaud Churin in conversation with Janice Valls-Russell (University Paul-Valéry, Montpellier, France)13. Migrant Othello in Bulgaria (2020): Professor Plamen Markov in conversation with Boika Sokolova (University of Notre Dame, London, UK) and Kirilka Stavreva (Cornell College, USA)Coda: Staging Shakespeare’s Others and their Biblical archetype Péter Dávidházi (Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary)NotesBibliographyIndex

Explores productions of the two plays through Europe during the 20th and 21st centuries, tracing how each has reflected the changing conditions and attitudes to 'the other' or the 'stranger' locally and nationally.

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