To celebrate the 2012 World Shakespeare festival, the Guardian and the RSC invite leading theatremakers, academics and thinkers to debate Shakespeare’s influence in their own countries
Amir Nizar Zuabi: In his awareness of life's grace and violence, its injustice and also its compassion, few writers seem so switched-on to Middle Eastern politics as Shakespeare
Our series celebrating the World Shakespeare festival continues with Poonam Trivedi's look at how England's wise man of storytelling has been absorbed into the Indian imagination
In the first of a new series celebrating the World Shakespeare festival in collaboration with the RSC, director Renato Rocha explains why there's no one like the Bard when it comes to analysing Brazilian politics
