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"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, includ...
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Cambridge University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Cambridge, United Kingdom : |
| Publication Dates: | 2021. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Edition: | First edition. |
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Cambridge companions to literature
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"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 nonspecialist, student audience"-- |
| Carrier Form: | xiii, 293 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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9781108710565 1108710565 9781108492119 1108492118 |
| Index Number: | PR3069 |
| CLC: | I561.073 |
| Call Number: | I561.073/C178-7 |
| Contents: |
Did the concept of race exist for Shakespeare and his contemporaries? : an introduction / The materials of race : staging the black and white binary in the early modern theatre / Barbarian moors : documenting racial formation in early modern England / Racist humor and Shakespearean comedy / Race in Shakespeare's histories / Race in Shakespeare's tragedies / Experimental Othello / Flesh and blood : race and religion in The Merchant of Venice / Was sexuality racialized for Shakespeare? : Antony and Cleopatra / The Tempest and early modern conceptions of race / Shakespeare, race, and globalization : Titus Andronicus / How to think like Ira Aldridge / What is the history of actors of color performing in Shakespeare in the UK? / Actresses of color and Shakespearean performance : the question of reception / Othello : a performance perspective / Are Shakespeare's plays racially progressive? The answer is in our hands / How have post-colonial approaches enriched Shakespeare's works / Is it possible to read Shakespeare through critical White studies? / |