The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare and Race
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The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare and Race

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The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare and Race

About this book

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.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-title
  3. Title page
  4. Copyright information
  5. Contents
  6. List of Figures
  7. List of Contributors
  8. Note on Shakespeare Editions
  9. Chapter 1 Did the Concept of Race Exist for Shakespeare and His Contemporaries?: An Introduction
  10. Chapter 2 The Materials of Race: Staging the Black and White Binary in the Early Modern Theatre
  11. Chapter 3 Barbarian Moors: Documenting Racial Formation in Early Modern England
  12. Chapter 4 Racist Humor and Shakespearean Comedy
  13. Chapter 5 Race in Shakespeare's Histories
  14. Chapter 6 Race in Shakespeare's Tragedies
  15. Chapter 7 Experimental Othello
  16. Chapter 8 Flesh and Blood: Race and Religion in The Merchant of Venice
  17. Chapter 9 Was Sexuality Racialized for Shakespeare?: Antony and Cleopatra
  18. Chapter 10 The Tempest and Early Modern Conceptions of Race
  19. Chapter 11 Shakespeare, Race, and Globalization: Titus Andronicus
  20. Chapter 12 How to Think Like Ira Aldridge
  21. Chapter 13 What Is the History of Actors of Color Performing in Shakespeare in the UK?
  22. Chapter 14 Actresses of Color and Shakespearean Performance: The Question of Reception
  23. Chapter 15 Othello: A Performance Perspective
  24. Chapter 16 Are Shakespeare's Plays Racially Progressive?: The Answer Is in Our Hands
  25. Chapter 17 How Have Post-Colonial Approaches Enriched Shakespeare's Works?
  26. Chapter 18 Is It Possible to Read Shakespeare through Critical White Studies?
  27. Further Reading
  28. Index