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To move global Shakespeare studies beyond the more limiting scope of nation-state and cultural profiling, I would like to propose we consider a number of critical concepts as methodology. These concepts critique the limitations of cartographic imagination, and connect the performance site to spaces of knowledge production.
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This chapter examines (1) the site of performance and the myth of global Shakespeare; (2) diaspora and racial tensions; (3) art in post-national space; (4) the ethics of quoting Shakespeare and world cultures; and (5) the production and dissemination of knowledge through archives.
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This page is a summary of: Global Shakespeare Criticism Beyond the Nation State, December 2017, Oxford University Press (OUP),
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199687169.013.17.
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