Shakespeare, Race and Anglophone Popular Culture.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Burnett, Mark Thornton, series editor.

Corredera, Vanessa I., editor.

Pittman, L. Monique, editor.

Series:

Shakespeare and Adaptation.

Shakespeare and Adaptation

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans in popular culture.

White people in popular culture.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (273 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Distribution:

London : Bloomsbury Publishing (UK), 2026.

Place of Publication:

London : The Arden Shakespeare, 2026.

System Details:

text file rdaft

Summary:

This collection offers a theoretically robust interrogation of how the circulation of Shakespeare within popular culture modes and genres operates to craft, reify and/or contest existing racial imaginaries.

Contents:

Notes on Contributors Acknowledgements Introduction: Shakespeare, Race and the Power of the Popular Vanessa I. Corredera (Baylor University, USA) and L. Monique Pittman (Andrews University, USA) 1. 'The King I Know He Is': Black Masculinity in the Intertextual Network of Shakespeare's Hamlet, Disney's The Lion King and Beyoncé's Black is King Claire Dawkins (Stanford University Online High School, USA) 2. Adapting Whiteness: Race and the Politics of Shakespeare for Young Readers Tyler Sasser (University of Alabama, USA) 3. 'Calling all the Tiger Mom wannabes!': Parenting with and without Shakespeare across Racial Lines Jeanette Nguyen Tran (Drake University, USA) 4. 'The future in the instant': Whiteness, Temporality and Frances McDormand's Coen Brothers Archive in Joel Coen's Postmenopausal Macbeth Jennie M. Votava (Allegheny College, USA) 5. Pop Remix: Shakespeare and White Womanhood in The Mexican-American Novel Daniel G. Lauby (University of Maine Farmington and Oxford Hills Comprehensive High School, USA) 6. Emily Dickinson Casts Othello: Shakespeare and White Allyship in AppleTV+'s Dickinson Marianne Montgomery (Thomas Harriot College of Arts and Sciences at East Carolina University, USA) and Vanessa L. Rapatz (Ball State University, USA) 7. 'Alpha, Beta, Cuck': King Lear, Succession and the Rescripting of White Masculinity Maya Mathur (University of Mary Washington, USA) 8. Shakespeare and Race in Two Pop Culture Versions of Station Eleven Michael D. Friedman (University of Scranton, USA) 9. Shakespeare and Bridgerton: The Myths of Race and Gender in Regency Romance Taarini Mookherjee (Queen's University Belfast, UK) Epilogue: Moonflower Murders and the Racial Evasions of Pop Vanessa I. Corredera (Baylor University, USA) and L. Monique Pittman (Andrews University, USA) Bibliography Index

ISBN:

1-350-50060-7

1-350-50058-5

1-350-50059-3

9781350500587

OCLC:

1561171985