Shakespeare and race / edited by Catherine M.S. Alexander and Stanley Wells.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Alexander, Catherine M. S.

Wells, Stanley, 1930-

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.

Shakespeare, William.

Literature and society--England--History--16th century.

Literature and society.

England.

History.

Literature and society--England--History--17th century.

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Characters--Black people.

Black people.

Black people in literature.

Race in literature.

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Criticism and interpretation.

Criticism and interpretation.

Race.

Physical Description:

ix, 233 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2000.

Summary:

Draws together thirteen important essays on the concept of race in Shakespeare's drama.

Contents:

Surveying 'race' in Shakespeare / Margo Hendricks

A portrait of a Moor / Bernard Harris

Elizabethans and foreigners / G.K. Hunter

'Spanish' Othello: the making of Shakespeare's Moor / Barbara Everett

Shakespeare and the living dramatist / Wole Soyinka

Shakespeare in the trenches / Balz Engler

Bowdler and Britannia: Shakespeare and the national libido / Michael Dobson

'Shakespur and the Jewbill' / James Shapiro

Wilhelm S and Shylock / Laurence Lerner

Cruelty, King Lear and the South African Land Act 1913 / Martin Orkin

Caliban and Ariel write back / Jonathan Bate

Casting Black actors: beyond Othellophilia / Celia R. Daileader

'Delicious traffick': racial and religious difference on early modern stages / Ania Loomba.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0521770467

0521779383

OCLC:

43186025