"Works such as Latinx Shakespeares are, or should be, for everybody. That the study is performance-centered, concerned with its audience's use of Shakespeare "as a tool of activism" and an essential part of intracultural American theater, should be heartening for anyone worried about the plays' contemporary societal relevance."
--Shakespeare Quarterly— M.L. Stapleton, Shakespeare Quarterly
“This impressive work intervenes at the intersection of two very important conversations—Latinx Studies and Shakespeare Studies—and makes a significant contribution to the field.”
—Jon D. Rossini, University of California Davis
— Jon D. Rossini
"The pairing of Shakespearean texts with Latinx adaptations is particularly revelatory, and Della Gatta balances her descriptions of each play and performance so that scholars from each of the overlapping areas of Latinidad, Shakespeare, and performance studies are grounded and engaged. Latinx Shakespeares is an indispensable record of, and argument for, the richness and productivity of Shakespearean performance of, by, and for Latinidad."
-Ethnic and Third World Literatures— Michael Vaclav, Ethnic and Third World Literatures
"Those of us who have ventured into the theatrical act of Latinizing Shakespeare have found a fellow traveler in Carla Della Gatta. In her most recent book, Latinx Shakespeares: Staging U.S. Intracultural Theater, she has identified our practices and brought them into focus for artists, scholars, and general readers alike."
—Theatre Survey— Guillermo Reyes, Theatre Survey
"Latinx Shakespeares supplies an authoritative and indispensable resource on theatrical uses of Shakespeare as a conduit for onstage explorations of Latinidad, and of Latinidad's aesthetic, creative, and critical futures as examined through dramaturgical engagements with Shakespeare."
--Shakespeare Bulletin— Shakespeare Bulletin
“Latinx Shakespeares offers a state-of-the-art account of Latinx themed, directed, and acted (re)performances of Shakespeare transacted in the last 25 years, greatly enhanced by Della Gatta’s respect for the many performers and directors with whom she enters into conversation. The book should be of particular interest to readers concerned about ‘the staging of difference of any kind in Shakespeare,’ which Della Gatta identifies with ‘the West Side Story effect’ in an opening chapter that alone is worth the price of admission.”
—Thomas Cartelli, Muhlenberg College
— Thomas Cartelli
“Carla Della Gatta’s Latinx Shakespeares offers a most welcome critical survey of how signal features of Latinx theatremaking—the theatrical use of language, sound, spectacle, social consciousness, cultural specificity—have guided, informed, and shaped myriad stagings of ‘Shakespeare’ over the last several decades. Della Gatta’s engagingly expert account details how ‘Latinx Shakespeares’ have evolved to become a constellation of reciprocally inflective practices that together activate a reimagining of how both Latinidad and Shakespeare play on the contemporary cultural stage. An invaluably illuminating book.”
—Brian Herrera, Princeton University
— Brian Herrera