About the Journal

Multicultural Shakespeare is an international journal devoted to Shakespearean studies; it is a forum in which researchers, especially those from non-English-speaking backgrounds, can air local concerns and themes that contribute to the creation and understanding of Shakespeare as a global phenomenon. Initially devoted mainly to translations, Multicultural Shakespeare developed into a publication mediating vigorous discussions on the adaptation of Shakespeare’s texts, their ontology and cross-cultural significance. It created an opportunity to present the universal dimension of Shakespeare’s works by focusing on the local values found in the cultures of Australia, Brazil, China, Finland, France, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Holland, Hungary, India, Israel, Japan, Korea, Norway, Poland, Romania, Russia, Spain, Switzerland, and the USA.

Announcements

Thematic volume cfp

2026-01-25

Authors are invited to submit articles for publication in the winter issue 2026, in the thematic volume of Multicultural Shakespeare: Translation, Appropriation and Performance, Multicultural Reimaginings: Contemporary Fictional Afterlives of Shakespeare, edited by Michela Compagnoni, Roma Tre University (michela.compagnoni@uniroma3.it) and Urszula Kizelbach, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań (urszulak@amu.edu.pl). Complete article submissions should be sent to the Guest Editors for an initial round of peer-reviewing as well as through the OJS system: Submissions | Multicultural Shakespeare: Translation, Appropriation and Performance (lodz.pl)

Each article submission should include an abstract (ca. 250-300 words) and a list of ca. 4-6 keywords. Articles should be between 7,000 and 9,000 words in length, and they should follow the formatting style of the journal (please see Instructions for Authors, which are to be found here https://czasopisma.uni.lodz.pl/szekspir/editorial_instructions).

 

Theatre and book reviews should be sent directly to the Theatre and Book Reviewers.   

For a full announcement, visit: https://www.czasopisma.uni.lodz.pl/szekspir/announcement/view/292

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Current Issue

Vol. 30 No. 45 (2024): Thematic Volume: Local / Global Shakespeare
View Vol. 30 No. 45 (2024): Thematic Volume: Local / Global Shakespeare

Guest editor: Yoshiko Kawachi

Published: 2024-12-30

Full Issue

Articles

  • New Interpretations and Adaptations of Shakespeare’s Plays in Japan from 2020 to 2023

    Shoichiro Kawai
    21-35
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.18778/2083-8530.30.02

  • Hamlet (Un-)Masked: SPAC’s Hamlet under COVID-19 Restrictions

    Tomoka Tsukamoto, Ted Motohashi
    37-56
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.18778/2083-8530.30.03

  • “Words, Words, Words.—Between Who?”: Alterations and Interpolations in the RSC Chinese Translation of Hamlet

    Cong Cong
    57-71
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.18778/2083-8530.30.04

  • Rank Intersectionality and Othello

    Paul Innes
    73-89
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.18778/2083-8530.30.05

  • “To Go ‘Into’ My Dialect”: Jane Lai’s Cantonese Translation of King Lear and the Historical Context of its Performances in Hong Kong

    Guixia Xie
    91-108
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.18778/2083-8530.30.06

  • Indian Supplements to Shakespeare: The Hungry and We That Are Young

    Poonam Trivedi
    109-120
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.18778/2083-8530.30.07

  • Historicizing the Bard of Avon: Shakeshifting Shakespeare and the Constitution of Guarati Literary Culture

    Hemang Ashwinkumar
    121-139
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.18778/2083-8530.30.08

  • Blood and Revenge: Animal Metaphors and Nature in Macbeth and the Oresteia

    Duluo Nie
    141-153
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.18778/2083-8530.30.09

  • Shakespeare Engraved: Frontispiece and Bardolatry

    Kazuki Sasaki
    155-171
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.18778/2083-8530.30.10

  • Greece Reinvented: Shakespeare’s “Greek Plays” as a Subgenre

    Wu Yarong, Hao Tianhu
    173-192
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.18778/2083-8530.30.11

Other

  • Contributors

    Yoshiko Kawachi
    5-8
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.18778/2083-8530.30.00

  • Introduction: Local/Global Shakespeare

    Yoshiko Kawachi
    9-19
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.18778/2083-8530.30.01

  • Book Reviews

    Bradin Cormack, Penelope Geng
    193-201
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.18778/2083-8530.30.12

  • Theatre Reviews

    Takehito Mitsui
    203-215
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.18778/2083-8530.30.13
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Increase in the contribution of foreign reviewers in the assessment of articles submitted for publication in the semi-yearly “Multicultural Shakespeare: Translation, Appropriation and Performance” – financed under Agreement No. 605/P-DUN/2019 12.06.2019 with funds provided by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education for activities popularising science