Research Catalog

Title

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

Author

Thompson, Ayanna, 1972-

Publication

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

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Details

Description

xiii, 293 pages : illustrations (black and white); 24 cm.

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 nonspecialist, student audience"--

Series Statement

Cambridge companions to literature

Uniform Title

Cambridge companions to literature.

Alternative Title

Shakespeare and race

Subject

• Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 > Criticism and interpretation
• Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 > Dramatic production
• Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
• Race in literature
• Race in the theater
• Theater

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

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 conceptions 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.

Call Number

*NDB 21-2232

ISBN

• 9781108492119
• 1108492118
• 9781108710565
• 1108710565

LCCN

2020041992

OCLC

1198085983

Author

Thompson, Ayanna, 1972- author.

Title

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

Publisher

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

Copyright Date

©2021

Edition

First edition.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Cambridge companions to literature

Cambridge companions to literature.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Form:

Online version: Thompson, Ayanna, 1972- Cambridge companion to Shakespeare and race Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2021 9781108684750 (DLC) 2020041993

Research Call Number

*NDB 21-2232