This book

• surveys the present state of Shakespeare studies in global contexts, addressing issues that are fundamental to our interpretive encounter with Shakespeare's work and his time.
• includes contributions that are solicited from scholars across the field and from both hemispheres of the globe who represent diverse career stages and linguistic traditions.
• is edited by guest editor Katherine Schaap Williams and draws on critical disability studies to consider the intersection of modern disability performance and global Shakespeare in theory and in practice.
• considers how concepts of disability might illuminate contemporary productions of Shakespeare's plays beyond western contexts. Williams brings together a team of contributors located in Sri Lanka, Poland, Iran, and the US to examine how performances and films about disability expand and refine our critical vocabulary for theorizing disability in global contexts.
• is an essential reference tool for scholars of early modern literature and culture with a particular emphasis on Shakespeare studies in global contexts.