The Shakespearean International Yearbook

Reparative Shakespeare

Alexa Alice Joubin, Natalia Khomenko

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English

Routledge
29 June 2025

Theatre Studies; Shakespeare plays; Crime & criminology; Criminal justice law

Series: The Shakespearean International Yearbook

In the modern world, references to Shakespeare frequently mark moments of catastrophe and of the accompanying longing for restoring social order, remedying injuries, and building strong communities. Shakespeare’s moral authority has often been invoked to support artistic projects that claimed social justice as their goal on the assumption that drama has the power to manipulate perceptual reality. Drawing on cases from around the world, this book interrogates the idea that performing or reading Shakespeare has socially reparative value. It also acknowledges Shakespeare as a potential source of social well-being practices in the arts. The global framework shows that it is problematic to view Shakespeare as an impartial moral center.

This book proposes that reparative creativity, or remedial uses of the canon, can give artists and audiences more agency. Having a map of canonical texts’ hidden ideologies can help readers, artists, and playgoers navigate its landscape, which is in itself a reparative act.

Edited by: Alexa Alice Joubin, Natalia Khomenko
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm,
Weight: 530g
ISBN: 9781032814315
ISBN 10: 1032814314
Series: The Shakespearean International Yearbook
Pages: 176
Publication Date: 29 June 2025
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Alexa Alice Joubin is General Editor of The Shakespearean International Yearbook. She is Professor of English, Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Theatre, International Affairs, and East Asian Languages and Literatures at George Washington University in Washington, DC, USA, where she directs the Digital Humanities Institute. Natalia Khomenko is Co-Editor of The Shakespearean International Yearbook. She is a lecturer in English Literature at York University, Toronto, Canada. Her current research project focuses on the reception and interpretation of Shakespearean drama in Soviet Russia.