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Tackling vital issues of politics, identity and experience in performance, this book asks what Shakespeare's plays mean when extended beyond the English language. From April to June 2012 the Globe to Globe Festival offered the unprecedented opportunity to see all of Shakespeare's plays performed in many different world languages. Thirty-eight productions from around the globe were presented in six weeks as part of the World Shakespeare Festival, which formed a cornerstone of the Cultural Olympics. This book provides the only complete critical record of that event, drawing together an internationally renowned group of scholars of Shakespeare and world theatre with a selection of the UK's most celebrated Shakespearean actors. Featuring a foreword by Artistic Director Dominic Dromgoole and an interview with the Festival Director Tom Bird, this volume highlights the energy and dedication that was necessary to mount this extraordinary cultural experiment 20. Two gentlemen of Verona for /by Zimbabwean diasporic communities / Sonia Massai -- 21. Inter-theatrical reading : theatrical and multicultural appropriations of 1-3 Henry VI as a Balkan trilogy / Aleksandar Sas̆a Dundjerović -- 22. 'This is our modern history' : The Balkans Henry VI / Randall Martin -- Week four -- 23. Shakespeare 2012 / Duchamp 1913 : The global motion of Henry IV / David Ruiter -- 24. Foreign Shakespeare and the uninformed theatre-goer : Part I, an American King John / Michael Dobson -- 25. The right to the theatre : The Belarus Free Theatre's King Lear / Keren Zaiontz -- 26. 'Playing' Shakespeare : Marjanishvili, Georgia's As you like it / Katie Normington -- 27. Romeu e Julieta (reprise) : Grupo Galpão at the Globe, again / Jacquelyn Bessell -- Week five -- 28. Bread and circuses : Chiten, Japan and Coriolanus / Deana Rankin -- 29. 'No words!' : Love's Labour's lost in British sign language / Kate Rumbold -- 31. Creative exploitation and talking back : Renegade theatre's The winter's tale or Ìtàn Ògìnìntìn ('Winter's tales') / Julie Sanders -- 32. A Shrew full of laughter / Elizabeth Schafer -- 33. Foreign Shakespeare and the uninformed theatre-goer : Part II, a Turkish Antony and Cleopatra / Michael Dobson -- 34. 'Didst hear her speak? Is she shrill-tongued or low?' : Conversation with Janet Suzman following a performance of Antony and Cleopatra, 26 May 2012 / Janet Suzman -- Week six -- 35. Habima Merchant of Venice : performances inside and outside the Globe / Suzanne Gossett -- 36. Patriotism, presentism and the Spanish Henry VIII: the tragedy of the migrant queen / Juan F. Cerdá -- 37. Touch and taboo in Roy-e-Sabs' The comedy of errors / Stephen Purcell -- 38. Shakespeare and the Euro-crisis : The Bremer Shakespeare company's Timon aus Athen / Jeannie Farr and Benedict Schofield -- 39. Restaging reception : translating the mélange des genres in Beaucoup de bruit pour rien / David Calder -- 40. Reviving Hamlet? Nekros̆ius' Lithuanian 'classic' / Ann Thompson -- Afterwords -- 'From thence to England' : Henry V at Shakespeare's Globe / Abigail Rokison -- Decentring Shakespeare : a hope for future connections / Bridget Escolme Foreword / by Dominic Dromgoole -- Introduction : Shakespeare beyond English / Susan Bennett and Christie Carson -- The Globe to Globe festival : an introduction / Tom Bird -- Performance calendar / Kimberly Richards -- Week one -- 1. U Venas no Adonisi : Grassroots theatre or market branding in the rainbow nation? / Malcolm Cocks -- 2. Festival showcasing and cultural regeneration : Aotearoa New Zealand, Shakespeare's Globe and Ngākau Toa's a Toroihi rāua ko Kāhira (Troilus and Cressida) in te reo Māori / Catherine Silverstone -- 3. 'What's mine is yours, and what is yours is mine' : measure for measure, Vakhtangov Theatre, Moscow / Kevin A. Quarmby -- 4. 'The girl defies' : a Kenyan Merry wives of Windsor / Emma Cox -- 5. Pericles and the Globe : celebrating the body and 'embodied spectatorship' / Becky Becker -- 6. Technicolour Twelfth night / Elizabeth Schafer -- Week two -- 7. Performing cultural exchange in Richard III : intercultural display and personal reflections / Lee Chee Keng -- 8. 'A girdle round about the earth' : Yohangza's Dream / Yong Li Lan -- 10. Art of darkness : staging Giulio Cesare at the Globe theatre / Sonia Massai -- 11. Neo-liberal pleasure, global responsibility and the South Sudan Cymbeline / Kim Solga -- 12. Titus in no man's land : The Tang Shu-wing Theatre Studio's production / Adele Lee -- 13. Tang Shu-wing's Titus and the acting of violence / Yong Li Lan -- 14. 'A strange brooch in this all-hating world' : Ashtar Theatre's Richard II / Samuel West -- 15. 'We want Bolingbroke' : Ashtar's Palestinian Richard II / Tamara Haddad -- 16. O-thell-o : styling syllables, donning wigs, late capitalist, national 'scariotypes' / P.A. Skantze -- Week three -- 17. Power play : Dhaka theatre's Bangla Tempest / Christine Dymkowski -- 18. Locating Markbet/locating the spectator / Robert Ormsby -- 19. 'Who dares receive in other' : conversation with Harriet Walter (9 May 2012) following a performance of Makbet / Harriet Walter
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