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

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

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

xiii, 293 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Cambridge companions to literature

"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"-- Provided by publisher.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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 / Noémie 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.

Cambridge companions to literature.

PR3069.R33 T48 2021