Shakespeare and race

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Title:

Shakespeare and race

Author:

Alexander, Catherine M. S.

Publication Information:

New York : Cambridge University Press, 2000.

Physical Description:

ix, 233 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Language:

English

Contents:

Surveying 'race' in Shakespeare / Margo Hendricks -- A portrait of a Moor / Bernard Harris -- Elizabethans and foreigners / G.K. Hunter -- 'Spanish' Othello: the making of Shakespeare's Moor / Barbara Everett -- Shakespeare and the living dramatist / Wole Soyinka -- Shakespeare in the trenches / Balz Engler -- Bowdler and Britannia: Shakespeare and the national libido / Michael Dobson -- 'Shakespur and the Jewbill' / James Shapiro -- Wilhelm S and Shylock / Laurence Lerner -- Cruelty, King Lear and the South African Land Act 1913 / Martin Orkin -- Caliban and Ariel write back / Jonathan Bate -- Casting Black actors: beyond Othellophilia / Celia R. Daileader -- 'Delicious traffick': racial and religious difference on early modern stages / Ania Loomba.

Personal Subject:

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616-Characters-Blacks.

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616-Criticism and interpretation.

Subject Term:

Literature and society -- England -- History -- 16th century.

Literature and society -- England -- History -- 17th century.

Blacks in literature.

Race in literature.

Race.

Added Author:

Alexander, Catherine M. S.