Shakespeare and Identity in a Divided World

Shakespeare and Identity in a Divided World examines some of the most pressing issues about identity and so-called identity politics in the highly polarized twenty-first century.

Kristin M.S. Bezio is Professor and Associate Dean for Academic Affairs in the Jepson School of Leadership Studies at the University of Richmond. Her background is in theatre and early modern drama, and her publications include Staging Power in Tudor and Stuart History Plays (2015), The Eye of the Crown (2023), ＂’Munday I Sweare Shalbee a Hollidaye’ The Politics of Anthony Munday, from Anti-Catholic Spy to Civic Pageanteer (1579-1630),＂ in Études Anglaises (2018), and the edited volumes William Shakespeare & 21st Century Culture, Politics, and Leadership: Bard Bites with Anthony Presti Russell (2021), and Religion and the Medieval and Early Modern Global Marketplace (2021) and Religion and the Early Modern British Marketplace (2021), both co-edited with Scott Oldenburg.