Culture-blind Shakespeare

Maryam Beyad is Professor of English Literature at the University of Tehran. Her areas of interest are Shakespeare, the Renaissance, and Victorian literature. Beyad is currently Head of the English Department at the Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures of the University of Tehran. Ali Salami is a Shakespearean scholar, lexicographer, literary translator, and Professor of English Literature at the University of Tehran. An internationally published author, Salami has published dozens of scholarly articles on gender and discourse, comparative literature, Shakespeare, and postcolonial literature, and is the author of Shakespeare and the Reader (Chicago, 2013).