The cover shows a series of stills from the live-online-reading of Hamlet that took place earlier this year (directed by Neil Coppen). Marguerite de Waal writes about the production in a fantastic reviews section that also covers a range of recently-published books:
- Jyotsna Singh’s Shakespeare and Postcolonial Theory (reviewed by Amrita Dhar)
- The Arden Research Handbook of Shakespeare and Social Justice (reviewed by Hassana Moosa)
- Eric Harber’s Shakespeare, Christianity and Italian Paganism, R. Allen Shoaf’s Lucretius, Shakespeare and the Nature of Things, and Cathryn Enis and Glyn Parry’s Shakespeare Before Shakespeare (reviewed by Tony Voss).
Volume 34 includes four research articles, on subjects ranging from the use of mixed reality digital games to teach Shakespeare in South African high schools (Gina Bloom and Lauren Bates) to the little-known “pre-history” of the Maynardville Open Air Theatre in Cape Town (Sheila Chisholm and Temple Hauptfleisch), and from Mauritian Shakespeares (Angela Ramsoondur and Sheila Wong Kong Luong) to a translation of Hamlet into Naija (Odirin Abonyi).
The volume closes with an obituary by Denise Newfield paying tribute to Shakespeare scholar Martin Orkin, and in his editorial Chris Thurman reflects on Orkin’s passing in revisiting the early years of the journal - first published in 1987, the same year as Orkin’s Shakespeare Against Apartheid - and the debates that have raged in its pages.
You can access Shakespeare in Southern Africa via SA Journals / Sabinet, African Journals Online (AJOL) and other scholarly databases.
