Provider: World Shakespeare Bibliography https://www.worldshakesbib.org Database: WSB Content: text/plain; charset="utf-8" TY - JOUR VL - 26 IS - 41 T2 - Multicultural Shakespeare: Translation, Appropriation, and Performance SP - 51-70 ID - bbbo421 T1 - "'Hopeful feeling[s]:' Utopian Shakespeares and the 2021 Reopening of British Theatres" AU - Hawkins, Rowena PY - 2022 DA - 2026 DO - 10.18778/2083-8530.26.04 KW - COVID-19 pandemic LA - English AB - Describes attending British productions of Shakespeare's plays in 2021 as the theaters reopened after the pandemic closures, including Nel Crouch's Romeo and Juliet (Theatre Royal, York, q.v.) and Sean Holmes's Midsummer Night's Dream (Globe, London, q.v.). Describes these shows as celebratory and utopic. English summary, 51. ER -