The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare and Race

Herausgeber: Thompson, Ayanna

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Produktbeschreibung

The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare and Race shows teachers and students how and why Shakespeare and race are inseparable. After reading this collection, lovers and skeptics of Shakespeare will better understand the historical materials that document early modern constructions of race and the contemporary performances that have altered them.

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Produktdetails

• Cambridge Companions to Literature
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Februar 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 154mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 434g
• ISBN-13: 9781108710565
• ISBN-10: 1108710565
• Artikelnr.: 60591269

Inhaltsangabe

1. Did the concept of race exist for Shakespeare and his contemporaries?:
an introduction Ayanna Thompson; 2. The materials of race: staging the
black and white binary in the early modern theatre Farah Karim-Cooper; 3.
Barbarian Moors: documenting racial formation in early modern England
Ambereen Dadabhoy; 4. Racist humor and Shakespearean comedy Patricia
Akhimie; 5. Race in Shakespeare's histories Andrew Hadfield; 6. Race in
Shakespeare's tragedies Carol Mejia LaPerle; 7. Experimental Othello
Matthew Dimmock; 8. Flesh and blood: race and religion in The Merchant of
Venice Dennis Austin Britton; 9. Was sexuality racialized for Shakespeare?:
Antony and Cleopatra Melissa E. Sanchez; 10. The Tempest and early modern
conceptions of race Virginia Mason Vaughan and Alden T. Vaughan; 11.
Shakespeare, race, and globalization: Titus Andronicus Noémie Ndiaye; 12.
How to think like Ira Aldridge Scott Newstok; 13. What is the history of
actors of color performing in Shakespeare in the UK? Urvashi Chakravarty;
14. Actresses of color and Shakespearean performance: the question of
reception Joyce Green MacDonald; 15. Othello: a performance perspective
Adrian Lester; 16. Are Shakespeare's plays racially progressive? The answer
is in our hands Miles Grier; 17. How have post-colonial approaches enriched
Shakespeare's works? Sandra Young; 18. Is it possible to read Shakespeare
through critical white studies? Arthur L. Little.