{"product_id":"9781350510944","title":"Shakespeare Refracted Five Plays by Caridad Svich","description":"\u003ch3\u003eMethuen Drama Play Collections\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch1\u003eShakespeare Refracted\u003c\/h1\u003e\u003ch2\u003eFive Plays by Caridad Svich\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003ch3\u003eCaridad Svich | Katherine Gillen | Vanessa I. Corredera | Kathryn Vomero Santos\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cb\u003eDrama \/ American \/ General\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDiscover Caridad Svich's fresh reimaginings of Shakespeare's plays that highlight the reality of the Latinx experience.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRecipient of an OBIE Award for Lifetime Achievement in theatre, Caridad Svich has written over fifty plays and has worked prodigiously as a translator, editor, essayist, and advocate for Latinx theatre: nowhere is this more evident than in her reimaginings of Shakespeare's plays. This anthology brings together these six plays together in a single volume for the first time, allowing them to be considered and studied like never before.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom\u003ci\u003e Twelve Ophelias\u003c\/i\u003e, which places the characters from \u003ci\u003eHamlet\u003c\/i\u003e in Appalachia, to \u003ci\u003ePerdita Gracia\u003c\/i\u003e which draws upon \u003ci\u003eThe Winter's Tale\u003c\/i\u003e to tell a story in the Florida Keys, to \u003ci\u003eThe Breath of\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eStars \u003c\/i\u003ewhich is realises The Tempest reconfigured for the digital age; Svich's work reflects contemporary American through the lens of Shakespeare. In doing so, Svich opens up fresh ways of thinking about Shakespeare in relation to present socio-political concerns, thereby speaking directly to the thriving debate surrounding in the intersection of Latinx Studies and Shakespeare, and Shakespeare and race.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFeaturing an introduction that situates Svich's Shakespeare reimaginings at the intersection of conversations in Shakespeare Studies, Latinx Studies, and Performance, Translation, and Adaptation\/Appropriation Studies, \u003ci\u003eShakespeare Refracted \u003c\/i\u003eoffers a much-needed access point to both this intersection and Svich's work.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003eCaridad Svich is a playwright, associate editor of Contemporary Theatre Review and founder of NoPassport theatre alliance and press. She received a 2012 OBIE Award for Lifetime Achievement and the 2011 American Theatre Critics Association Primus Prize for \u003ci\u003eThe House of the Spirits\u003c\/i\u003e.She has edited several books on theatre including A\u003ci\u003eudience Revolution and Innovation in Five Acts \u003c\/i\u003e(2016 and 2015), \u003ci\u003eOut of Silence: Censorship in Theatre \u0026amp; Performance\u003c\/i\u003e (2014), and \u003ci\u003eTrans-Global Readings\u003c\/i\u003e (2004).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eVanessaI Corredera \u003c\/b\u003eis the author of \u003ci\u003eReanimating Shakespeare's Othello in Post-Racial America\u003c\/i\u003e(2022). Her scholarship focuses on the intersections between Shakespeare, race and representation in contemporary popular culture, adaptations\/appropriations and performance .With L. Monique Pittman and Geoffrey Way, she edited \u003ci\u003eShakespeare and Cultural Appropriation\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eKatherine Gillen \u003c\/b\u003eis the author of \u003ci\u003eChaste Value: Economic Crisis, Female Chastity, and the Production of Social Difference on Shakespeare's Stage \u003c\/i\u003e(2017). She is co-editing \u003ci\u003eThe Bard in the Borderlands: An Anthology of Shakespeare Appropriations en La Frontera \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eShakespeare and the Politics of Tradaptation \u003c\/i\u003e(2025). \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eKathryn Vomero Santos \u003c\/b\u003eis the author of the book \u003ci\u003eShakespeare in Tongues \u003c\/i\u003eand co-editor of \u003ci\u003eEthical Appropriations in Shakespearean Performance \u003c\/i\u003e(2024) and \u003ci\u003eShakespeare and the Politics of Tradaptation\u003c\/i\u003e(2025). 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