The Cambridge companion to Shakespeare and race / edited by Ayanna Thompson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Thompson, Ayanna, 1972- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Shakespeare, William.

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.

Criticism and interpretation.

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Dramatic production.

Race in literature.

Race in the theater.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 293 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2021.

System Details:

text file

PDF

Summary:

The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare and Race shows teachers and students how and why Shakespeare and race are inseparable. Moving well beyond Othello, the collection invites the reader to understand racialized discourses, rhetoric, and performances in all of Shakespeare's plays, including the comedies and histories. Race is presented through an intersectional approach with chapters that focus on the concepts of sexuality, lineage, nationality, and globalization. The collection helps students to grapple with the unique role performance plays in constructions of race by Shakespeare (and in Shakespearean performances), considering both historical and contemporary actors and directors. The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare and Race will be the first book that truly frames Shakespeare studies and early modern race studies for a non-specialist, student audience.

Contents:

Did the concept of race exit for Shakespeare and his contemporaries? : an introduction / Ayanna Thompson

The materials of race : staging the black and white binary in the early modern theatre / Farah Karim-Cooper

Barbarian moors : documenting racial formation in early modern England / Ambereen Dadabhoy

Racist humor and Shakespearean comedy / Patricia Akhimie

Race in Shakespeare's histories / Andrew Hadfield

Race in Shakespeare's tragedies / Carol Mejia LaPerle

Experimental Othello / Matthew Dimmock

Flesh and blood : race and religion in The merchant of Venice / Dennis Austin Britton

Was sexuality racialized for Shakespeare? : Antony and Cleopatra / Melissa E. Sanchez

The tempest and early modern concpetions of race / Virginia Mason Vaughan and Alden T. Vaughan

Shakespeare, race, and globalization : Titus Andronicus / No?emie Ndiaye

How to think like Ira Aldridge / Scott Newstok

What is the history of actors of color performing in Shakespeare in the UK? / Urvashi Chakravarty

Actresses of color and Shakespearean performance : the question of reception / Joyce Green MacDonald

Othello : a performance perspective / Adrian Lester

Are Shakespeare's plays racially progressive? The answer is in our hands / Miles Grier

How have post-colonial approaches enriched Shakespeare's works / Sandra Young

Is it possible to read Shakespeare through critical White studies? / Arthur L. Little, Jr.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 08 Feb 2021).

Other Format:

Print version:

ISBN:

9781108684750

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.