Alexa Huang, Author at Index on Censorship

Alexa Huang

Alexa Huang teaches Shakespeare at George Washington University where she co-founded and co-directs the Digital Humanities Institute. Her latest book is Shakespeare and the Ethics of Appropriation (co-edited with Elizabeth Rivlin). At MIT, Alexa is co-founder and co-director of the open access Global Shakespeares digital performance archive.

“Censure me in your wisdom”: Bowdlerized Shakespeare in the nineteenth century

by Alexa Huang | 2 Jun 2016

Shakespeare has been used to divert around censorship, “sanitised” and redacted for children, young adults and school use, and even used as a form of protest