Stephen Richter's Marqués - a Narco Macbeth in Trevor Boffone & Carla Della Gatta's "Shakespeare and Latinidad" Edinburgh University Press 2021

"Staging Shakespeare for Latinx Identity and Mexican Subjectivity: Marqués: A Narco Macbeth," by Dr. Carla Della Gatta. Link to article here

Shakespeare and Latinidad is a collection of scholarly and practitioner essays in the field of Latinx theatre that specifically focuses on Latinx productions and appropriations of Shakespeare's plays. It is the first truly comprehensive treatment of this style of adaptation, bringing together the diverse voices working in this field today including leading academics, playwrights and theatre practitioners. This blend of essays and interviews reflects the transdisciplinary synthesis of scholarship, dramaturgy and pedagogy that shapes Latinx engagement with Shakespeare.

Trevor Boffone is the founder of the 50 Playwrights Project and a member of the National Steering Committee for the Latinx Theatre Commons. He is a Lecturer in the Women’s, Gender & Sexuality Studies Program at the University of Houston. He is the author of Renegades: Social Media Dance Cultures from Dubsmash to TikTok (Oxford University Press, 2021). He is the co-editor of Encuentro: Latinx Performance for the New American Theater (Northwestern University Press, 2019), Teatro Latino: Nuevas obras de los Estados Unidos (La Casita Grande Press, 2019) and Nerds, Goths, Geeks, and Freaks: Outsiders in Chicanx and Latinx Young Adult Literature (University Press of Mississippi, 2020).

Carla Della Gatta is Assistant Professor of English at Florida State University. She has published essays and reviews, dramaturged professionally, and worked as a scholar and adviser for various theatres. She has been awarded fellowships from the Woodrow Wilson Foundation, the Folger Shakespeare Library, the New York Public Library and the American Society for Theatre Research. Della Gatta received the J. Leeds Barroll Dissertation Prize from the Shakespeare Association of America for the best dissertation in 2016. Her first monograph, Latinx Shakespeares: The Staging of Intracultural Theatre, is in process. It explores the intersection of Shakespeare and Latinidad through dramaturgical and textual analysis of cultural adaptations.

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