William Shakespeare and 21st-Century Culture, Politics, and Leadership

Edited by Kristin M.S. Bezio, Associate Professor of Leadership Studies and Anthony Presti Russell, Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature, University of Richmond, US

Contents:

Introduction: “I that please some, try all”: Shakespeare this time 1
Anthony Presti Russell and Kristin M. S. Bezio

PART I PERFORMANCE
1 Performance and the political subject in Richard II 11
Melissa Caldwell
2 “Liars and swearers”: Shakespeare’s Macbeth and the
dissemblance of modern autocrats 30
Ryan Farrar
3 Learning about leadership from Coriolanus and Coriolanus 51
Peter Iver Kaufman

PART II TRUTH
4 “Lies like truth”: Macbeth and the American Dream 67
Anthony Presti Russell
5 When it is wise to play the fool: a lesson in servant
leadership, courtesy of King Lear 90
Katey Roden
6 Post-truth and pre-truth: how rhetoric shapes reality in
Boyle’s Certain Physiological Essays , Shakespeare’s
Othello , and the language of Donald Trump 109
Samantha Dressel

PART III RESISTANCE
7 Much ado about me too: the personal and political activism
of Shakespeare’s women 131
Jess Landis
8 Importance of highlighting the rotten state: a study of
Vishal Bharadwaj’s Haider (2014) and its subversive strategies 149
Debaditya Mukhopadhyay
9 The Shakespeare Company Japan and regional self-fashioning 164
Tetsuhito Motoyama and Fumiaki Konno

PART IV FREEDOM
10 “Mountainish inhumanity”: the politics of religion,
refugees, and ego from Sir Thomas More to Donald Trump 183
Kristin M. S. Bezio
11 Twelfth Night and gender fluidity 202
Maria Carrig
12 Shakespeare in other tongues: translation and adaptation
into Yoruba and Hausa in text, film, and stage productions
in Nigeria 218
Kayode Gboyega Kofoworola
Epilogue and post-script: the art of the De’ill, followed by
a discussion between “M” and the editors 236
Raphael Seligmann

Index