Discover Caridad Svich's fresh reimaginings of Shakespeare's plays that highlight the reality of the Latinx experience.

Recipient 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.

From Twelve Ophelias, which places the characters from Hamlet in Appalachia, to Perdita Gracia which draws upon The Winter's Tale to tell a story in the Florida Keys, to The Breath of Stars which 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.

Featuring 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, Shakespeare Refracted offers a much-needed access point to both this intersection and Svich's work.

Caridad 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 The House of the Spirits.She has edited several books on theatre including Audience Revolution and Innovation in Five Acts (2016 and 2015), Out of Silence: Censorship in Theatre & Performance (2014), and Trans-Global Readings (2004).

VanessaI Corredera is the author of Reanimating Shakespeare's Othello in Post-Racial America(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 Shakespeare and Cultural Appropriation.

Katherine Gillen is the author of Chaste Value: Economic Crisis, Female Chastity, and the Production of Social Difference on Shakespeare's Stage (2017). She is co-editing The Bard in the Borderlands: An Anthology of Shakespeare Appropriations en La Frontera and Shakespeare and the Politics of Tradaptation (2025).

Kathryn Vomero Santos is the author of the book Shakespeare in Tongues and co-editor of Ethical Appropriations in Shakespearean Performance (2024) and Shakespeare and the Politics of Tradaptation(2025). She is also co-editing The Bard in the Borderlands: An Anthology of Shakespeare Appropriations en La Frontera.