The Stanford Global Shakespeare Encyclopedia
This online global project will be the most comprehensive work of its kind, a heavily illustrated encyclopedia that draws upon the expertise of an internationally renowned advisory and editorial board and hundreds of stellar contributors to detail Shakespeare’s life, works, world, and global impact through over 4,000 alphabetically arranged entries. It will be an open access online encyclopedia, free to anyone in the world with access to the internet. There will also be indices, topical gatherings, and links across entries making it an invaluable online resource for research, teaching (from high school to graduate school), and use by the general public; as well as Appendices on digital resources, reliable free online editions, global films, creative writing, and Lesson Plans for teachers.
In addition to entries on Shakespeare’s life, family, friends, neighbors, Stratford sites, individual works, collaborations, and contemporaries (including writers, actors, and patrons); on every character, song, dance, musical instrument, stage direction, location, verse form, and genre in Shakespeare; on rhetoric and language and everything relevant to theaters, playing companies, staging, printers, money, commerce, medicine, anatomy, science, law, geopolitics, religion, and publication in Shakespeare’s day, its entries (written by experts in each area) cover an extraordinary historical and interdisciplinary range, from classical influences and medieval sources to the impact of his works from the 17th to the 21st century–on music (opera, orchestral music, operettas, jazz, musicals, hip-hop, etc.), painting, literature (including novels, science fiction, drama, poetry, and children’s literature), theater, translation, education, politics, philosophy, history, digital humanities, language, film, television, popular culture, law, and Supreme Court decisions, as well as entries on race, ethnicity, and gender, colonialism and post-colonialism, globalization, racial cross-casting, the British Black and Asian Shakespeare Database (actors, directors), Latino Shakespeares, Latinidad / Latinx productions, etc. Its global range includes entries on and from all regions of the world, with over 1000 illustrations including color photographs of productions from theaters around the globe.
GENERAL EDITOR:
Patricia Parker, Margery Bailey Professor in English and Dramatic Literature, and Professor of Comparative Literature, Stanford University
ASSOCIATE GENERAL EDITOR:
Roland Greene, Mark Pigott KBE Professor in the School of Humanities and Sciences, Professor of Comparative Literature and, by courtesy, of Iberian and Latin American Cultures, Stanford University
ADVISORY / EDITORIAL BOARD: members include Minami Ryuta (Professor in the Faculty of Communication Studies, Tokyo Keizai University); Shen Lin (Central Academy of Drama, Beijing); Yong Li Lan (Associate Professor of Theatre Studies, University of Singapore), among others (including from South Asia).
GLOBAL RANGE:
The Stanford Global Shakespeare Encyclopedia includes entries on and from countries and regions around the globe (including the United States; Canada; Mexico; Latin America [Spanish-speaking]; Cuba; Argentina; Brazil; Ireland; Wales; Scotland; England; Spain; Portugal; France; Switzerland; Belgium; Netherlands; Scandinavia; Poland; Germany; Austria; Italy; Hungary; Croatia; Albania; Macedonia; Greece; Serbia; Romania; Bulgaria; Armenia; Turkey; Ottoman Empire; Russia and the former USSR; Africa (general entry); Morocco; Algeria; Tunisia; Ghana; Nigeria; South Africa; Tanzania; Kenya; Mauritius; Arab Shakespeares [general entry]; Egypt; Yemen; Oman; Jordan; Iraq; Palestine; Israel; Lebanon; Syria; Iran; Afghanistan; Pakistan; India; Bangladesh; Thailand; Malaysia; Indonesia; Cambodia; Vietnam; Singapore; Taiwan; Hong Kong; Macao; Philippines; China; Tibet; Korea; Japan, Australia, and New Zealand (including Maori-language productions).
In addition to entries on countries and regions (and other entries on South Asian topics), there are many separate entries on East Asian writers, directors, films, performance traditions, graphic arts, etc., including Fukuda Tsuneari; Hira Mikijiro; Kawai Shoichiro; Kinoshita Junji; Kurosawa Akira (and each of his films); Liang Shiqiu; Matsuoka Kazuko; Ninagawa Yukio; Noda Hideki; Nomura Mansai; Odashima Yushi; Ong Keng Sen (and his multilingual pan-Asian productions); Suzuki Tadashi; Tsubouchi Shoyo; Wu Hsing-kuo; the Shakespeare Society of China; the Tokyo Globe Theatre; Bunraku Shakespeare; Kabuki Shakespeare; Kyogen Shakespeare; NohShakespeare; Shimpa Shakespeare; Shingeki Shakespeare; Manga Shakespeare–amply illustrated by graphic illustrations and color photographs (including the many recently donated by Ninagawa’s widow from his Shakespeare productions). And because this online encyclopedia can be easily updated, there will be many more East Asian entries to come.
INDIVIDUAL PLAY ENTRIES, whose final long sections on “Global Afterlife and Performance History” include information and photographs of productions of that play from around the world, as well as films, novels, poetry, opera, ballet and modern dance adaptations and other musical adaptations of each play from across the globe–with digital “links” to each of those entries on separate countries, writers, directors, translators, artists, etc. so that teachers, students and others who begin with a single play can be led outward to the international range of entries and information the encyclopedia includes (with additional visual materials), for a more truly global education as well.
Posted by: Haiyan Lee haiyan@stanford.edu