Shakespeare and Social Engagement

Rowan Mackenzie is both practitioner and academic, working with specialised communities. She is founder and Artistic Director of Shakespeare UnBard and Co-Chair of the Shakespeare Beyond Borders Alliance. Her monograph Creating Space for Shakespeare will be published by Bloomsbury Arden in March 2023.

List of Figures



Introduction

Robert Shaughnessy



Chapter 1. Thither and Back Again: An Exploration of A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Sue Emmy Jennings



Chapter 2. Shakespeare in Yosemite: Applied Shakespeare in a National Park

Katherine Steele Brokaw and Paul Prescott



Chapter 3. Shakespeare’s Fools: A Piece in a Peacebuilding Mosaic

Maja Milatovic-Ovadia



Chapter 4. Getting it on its Feet: Exploring The Politics and Processes of Shakespeare Outside the Traditional Classroom

Karl Falconer



Chapter 5. ‘Branches of Learning’: Collaborative Cognitive and Affective Learning Between Shakespearean Students trained in Schools, Universities, and Carceral Institutions

Sheila T. Cavanagh and Steve Rowland



Chapter 6. Producing Space for Shakespeare

Rowan Mackenzie



Chapter 7. Mind the Gap: Working Across Lines of Difference in Carceral Shakespeare

Frannie Shepherd-Bates and Kate Powers



Chapter 8. Signing Shakespeare

Tracy Irish and Abigail Rokison-Woodall



Chapter 9. A World Elsewhere: Documentary Representations of Social Shakespeare

Susanne Greenhalgh



Afterword

Rowan Mackenzie



Index