Scholarship and Reviews

Thank you, Dr. Kathryn Vomero Santos, for your insightful reading of not only Marqués - a Narco Macbeth and the ecosphere or world from which the production was born, but also for your reading of the complicity of the US Entertainment and Media industries and the consequences of their, "seeing Shakespeare in our fraught moment of white nationalism and American exceptionalism because even the most seemingly well-intentioned analogy may end up participating in the ongoing formation of ethnoracial ideologies that have very real legal, social, and financial effects. What we should strive to see in Shakespeare is an opportunity to reframe dominant and harmful narratives and to tell a different story," (Vomero Santos 12). Well said and well read, Doctor. ¡Así es! Click button for full article.

Shakespeare and Latinidad, “Staging Shakespeare for Latinx Identity and Mexican Subjectivity: Marqués: A Narco Macbeth” by Dr. Carla Della Gatta, Edinburgh University Press 2021. Click below for link to article.

Shakespeare, Volume 17, Issue 1, Routledge (2021) Shakespeare, Race and Nation, guest-edited by Farah Karim-Cooper and Eoin Price. “Review of Stephen Richter and Mónica Andrade’s Marqués - A Narco Macbeth. University of California, Santa Cruz,” by Dr. Kathryn Vomero Santos (Trinity University). Click on image or here for link to article

Thank you @gemmaallred, @Ben_Broadribb, and @_erinsullivan for including MOORE - a Pacific Island Othello in, Lockdown Shakespeare: New Evolutions in Performance and Adaptation. It will be an Arden Shakespeare like no other. Mahalo nui to all who fought to ensure "that the powerful play goes on," and to those who chose to write about it.

Marqués - a Narco Macbeth to be published in, The Bard in the Borderlands: An Anthology of Shakespeare Appropriations en la Frontera Drs. Katherine Gillen and Adrianna Santos (both at Texas A&M University-San Antonio) and Dr. Kathryn Vomero Santos (Trinity University-San Antonio) are collaborating on a new book titled, The Bard in the Borderlands: An Anthology of Shakespeare Appropriations en la Frontera, which will be published by ACMRS Press, the publishing arm of the Arizona Medieval and Renaissance Center at Arizona State University. This anthology will collect and make available Shakespeare appropriations set in or engaging with the U.S.-Mexico borderlands, thereby enabling culturally and regionally relevant teaching, performance, and research. “In recent years, we have witnessed a groundswell of Borderlands Shakespeare productions that engage with the unique, hybrid culture of la frontera and that interrogate the complex layers of colonialism shaping both the region and Shakespeare’s reception in it. “ – Dr Kathrine Gillen. Click button for bibliography.

Moving Islands: Contemporary Performance and the Global Pacific: MOORE – a Pacific Island Othello. Mahalo nui loa, Dr. Diana Looser for including MOORE in your wonderful book on contemporary performance from Oceania.

MOORE – a Pacific Island Othello has been inducted into the MIT Global Shakespeare Project. Our work honors the fact and demonstrates the diversity of the world-wide reception and production of Shakespeare’s plays in ways that we hope will nourish the remarkable array of new forms of cultural exchange that the digital age has made possible. Global Shakespeares is a participatory multi-centric networked model that offers wide access to international performances that are changing how we understand Shakespeare’s plays and the world.