The main purpose of this volume is to look into a wide spectrum of artistic ventures which provoke, challenge habitual thinking, and cross boundaries. The essays offer a truly interdisciplinary perspective and deal with creative acts of transgression from a broad range of fields: literature, theatre, visual art, film, and others.

The volume revisions Shakespeare studies from an international, mainly feminist or gender, perspective. It sheds a new light on Shakespeare through the work of women from all over the world: actresses, directors, writers and others, who appropriated Shakespeare according to their specific social and cultural milieu and political situations.