An anthology that reimagines Shakespeare’s works from the perspective of the United States–Mexico Borderlands.

For decades, Chicanx and Indigenous theater-makers have worked to repurpose the plays of William Shakespeare to reflect the histories and lived realities of the United States–Mexico Borderlands, or La Frontera. Celebrating this rich tradition, The Bard in the Borderlands brings a wide range of Borderlands Shakespeare plays together for the first time in a multi-volume, open-access scholarly edition, creating space to tell stories of and for this complex and important region.

This second volume continues to celebrate the dynamic, multilingual reworking of canon and place that defines Borderlands Shakespeare, situating geographically and temporally diverse plays within the robust study of Shakespeare’s global afterlives.

Katherine Gillen is professor of English at Texas A&M University–San Antonio. She is the author of Chaste Value: Economic Crisis, Female Chastity and the Production of Social Difference on Shakespeare’s Stage. Adrianna M. Santos is associate professor of English at Texas A&M University–San Antonio. She is the author of Cicatrix Poetics, Trauma and Healing in the Literary Borderlands: Beyond Survival. Kathryn Vomero Santos is associate professor of English at Trinity University. She is the author of a forthcoming book titled Shakespeare in Tongues.

General Introduction: “Tracing the Traditions of Borderlands Shakespeare,” Katherine Gillen, Adrianna M. Santos, and Kathryn Vomero Santos

Introduction to Volume 2, Katherine Gillen, Adrianna M. Santos, and Kathryn Vomero Santos

Playtexts and Introductions

1. The Merchant of Santa Fe, by Ramón A. Flores and Lynn Knight
2. Invierno, by José Cruz González
3. Measure for Measure | Medida por medida, by Bernardo Mazón Daher
4. La Comedia of Errors, by Lydia G. Garcia and Bill Rauch

Glossary

Bibliography