South African Essays on 'Universal' Shakespeare

Chris Thurman is Associate Professor in English at the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa. He edits the journal Shakespeare in Southern Africa.

Introduction Generation S: ‘Southern’ Shakespeares across Time and Space, Chris Thurman; Part 1 ‘Universal’ Will; Chapter 1 On Being Human, Natasha Distiller; Chapter 2 Shakespeare without Borders, Sandra Young; Chapter 3 ‘Many in OneÂ’: On Shakespeare, Language and Translation, Pier Paolo Frassinelli; Part 2 Shakespeare, Mediated; Chapter 4 Foxe and the Fat Man, Shakespeare and the Jesuit: Oldcastle Revisited, Victor Houliston; Chapter 5 ‘I, that am not shaped for sportive tricksÂ’: Playing with Richard III, Chris Thurman; Chapter 6 Traditions of English Criticism: ShakespeareÂ’s Late Plays in the Early Twentieth Century, Brian Pearce; Part 3 Butler’s Shakespeare Reconsidered; Chapter 7, Guy Butler; Chapter 8, Guy Butler; Chapter 9 Butler’s Lear, Laurence Wright;