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IN ACT 4, SCENE 1 of All's Well That Ends Well, when the First Soldier steps forward to assume his intratheatrical role as linguistic mediator within the elaborate plot to [...]

This essay examines the racializing logics and consequences of drawing analogies between the works of William Shakespeare and the devastatingly violent realities of the drug trade in the Americas. The particular prominence of Macbeth in the wide range of Shakespearean invocations and appropriations in contemporary US narratives about narcotrafficking cannot be attributed simply to the fact that it is a tale of bloody ambition. Rather, the repeated mapping of a play that comes to its conclusion with an English military invasion of its "barbarous" Scottish neighbors onto the US–Mexico Borderlands speaks to much deeper histories of colonial conquest and to neocolonial interventionist policies and actions of the present. The essay concludes by turning to two recent instances in which theater artists have translated and significantly revised Macbeth in order to reframe dominant narratives about narcotrafficking, racial supremacy, and the border. These productions demonstrate the disruptive and transformative potential of Shakespearean appropriations that resist neocolonial power structures and ideologies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article offers information on the podcast "Women and Shakespeare" created and hosted by Shakespeare scholar Varsha Panjwani, emphasizing its disruptive and empowering nature, which aims to amplify the voices of women scholars in Shakespeare studies.

Leonard Digges is perhaps best known for the commendatory poem he composed for the 1623 First Folio that proclaims that Shakespeare's works will outlive the time-bound 'Stratford Moniment' and make [...]

The article reviews digital resource "Bibliography of Cervantes Titles and Materials at the Folger. Other" located at folgerpedia.folger.edu.