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The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare and Race

Author : Ayanna Thompson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2021-02-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1108710565

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The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare and Race by Ayanna Thompson Pdf

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.

Shakespeare on the Shades of Racism

Author : Ruben Espinosa
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2021-06-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780429595349

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Shakespeare on the Shades of Racism by Ruben Espinosa Pdf

Shakespeare on the Shades of Racism examines Shakespeare in relation to ongoing conversations that interrogate the vulnerability of Black and brown people amid oppressive structures that aim to devalue their worth. By focusing on the way these individuals are racialized, politicized, policed, and often violated in our contemporary world, it casts light on dimensions of Shakespeare’s work that afford us a better understanding of our ethical responsibilities in the face of such brutal racism. Shakespeare on the Shades of Racism is divided into seven short chapters that cast light on contemporary issues regarding racism in our day. Some salient topics that these chapters address include the murder of unarmed Black men and women, the militarization of the U.S. Mexico border, anti-immigrant laws, exclusionary measures aimed at Syrian refugees, inequities in healthcare and safety for women of color, international trends that promote white nationalism, and the dangers of complicity when it comes to racist paradigms. By bringing these contemporary issues into conversation with a wide range of plays that span the many genres in which Shakespeare wrote throughout his career, these chapters demonstrate how the widespread racism and discord within our present moment stands to infuse with urgent meaning Shakespeare’s attention to the (in)humanity of strangers, the ethics of hospitality, the perils of insularity, abuses of power, and the vulnerability of the political state and its subjects. The book puts into conversation Shakespeare with present-day events and cultural products surrounding topics of race, ethnicity, xenophobia, immigration, asylum, assimilation, and nationalism as a means of illuminating Shakespeare’s cultural and literary significance in relation to these issues. It should be an essential read for all students of literary studies and Shakespeare.

Shakespeare and Race

Author : Catherine M. S. Alexander,Stanley Wells
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2000-12-21
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0521779383

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Shakespeare and Race by Catherine M. S. Alexander,Stanley Wells Pdf

This volume, first published in 2000, draws together thirteen important essays on the concept of race in Shakespeare's drama.

Shakespeare, Race, and Colonialism

Author : Ania Loomba
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2002-09-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780191587931

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Shakespeare, Race, and Colonialism by Ania Loomba Pdf

For centuries, plays like Othello and The Tempest have spoken about 'race' to audiences whose lives have been, and continue to be, enormously affected by the racial question. But are concepts such as 'race' or 'racism', 'xenophobia', 'ethnicity', or even 'nation' appropriate for analysing communities and identities in early modern Europe? Did skin colour matter to Shakespeare and his contemporaries, or was religious difference more important to them? This book examines how Shakespeare's plays contribute to, and are themselves crafted from, contemporary ideas about social and cultural difference. It considers how such ideas might have been different from later ideologies of 'race' that emerged during colonialism, but also from older ideas about barbarism, blackness, and religious difference. Thus it places the racial question in Shakespeare's plays alongside the histories with which they converse. Shakespeare uses and plays with the vocabularies of difference prevailing in his time, repeatedly turning to religious and cultural cross-overs and conversions - their impossibility, or the traumas they engender, or the social upheavals they can generate. Shakespeare, Race and Colonialism looks in depth at Othello, The Merchant of Venice, Antony and Cleopatra, The Tempest, and Titus Andronicus, and also shows how racial difference shapes the language and themes of other plays.

Shakespeare and the Cultivation of Difference

Author : Patricia Akhimie
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2018-01-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351125024

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Shakespeare and the Cultivation of Difference by Patricia Akhimie Pdf

Shakespeare and the Cultivation of Difference reveals the relationship between racial discrimination and the struggle for upward social mobility in the early modern world. Reading Shakespeare’s plays alongside contemporaneous conduct literature - how-to books on self-improvement - this book demonstrates the ways that the pursuit of personal improvement was accomplished by the simultaneous stigmatization of particular kinds of difference. The widespread belief that one could better, or cultivate, oneself through proper conduct was coupled with an equally widespread belief that certain markers (including but not limited to "blackness"), indicated an inability to conduct oneself properly, laying the foundation for what we now call "racism." A careful reading of Shakespeare’s plays reveals a recurring critique of the conduct system voiced, for example, by malcontents and social climbers like Iago and Caliban, and embodied in the struggles of earnest strivers like Othello, Bottom, Dromio of Ephesus, and Dromio of Syracuse, whose bodies are bruised, pinched, blackened, and otherwise indelibly marked as uncultivatable. By approaching race through the discourse of conduct, this volume not only exposes the epistemic violence toward stigmatized others that lies at the heart of self-cultivation, but also contributes to the broader definition of race that has emerged in recent studies of cross-cultural encounter, colonialism, and the global early modern world.

Shakespeare, Race and Performance

Author : Delia Jarrett-Macauley
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2016-08-05
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781317429449

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Shakespeare, Race and Performance by Delia Jarrett-Macauley Pdf

What does it mean to study Shakespeare within a multicultural society? And who has the power to transform Shakespeare? The Diverse Bard explores how Shakespeare has been adapted by artists born on the margins of the Empire, and how actors of Asian and African-Caribbean origin are being cast by white mainstream directors. It examines how notions of 'race' define the contemporary British experience, including the demands of traditional theatre, and it looks at both the playtexts themselves and contemporary productions. Editor Delia Jarrett-Macauley assembles a stunning collection of classic texts and new scholarship by leading critics and practitioners, to provide the first comprehensive critical and practical analysis of this field.

Passing Strange

Author : Ayanna Thompson
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2011-06-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780195385854

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Passing Strange by Ayanna Thompson Pdf

Passing Strange offers a trenchant look at the diverse ways Shakespeare relates to race in a variety of cultural producitons in the United States.

Colorblind Shakespeare

Author : Ayanna Thompson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2006-09-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781135867034

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Colorblind Shakespeare by Ayanna Thompson Pdf

The systematic practice of non-traditional or "colorblind" casting began with Joseph Papp's New York Shakespeare Festival in the 1950s. Although colorblind casting has been practiced for half a century now, it still inspires vehement controversy and debate. This collection of fourteen original essays explores both the production history of colorblind casting in cultural terms and the theoretical implications of this practice for reading Shakespeare in a contemporary context.

Shakespeare, Race, and Colonialism

Author : Ania Loomba
Publisher : Oxford Shakespeare Topics
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0198711743

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Shakespeare, Race, and Colonialism by Ania Loomba Pdf

Did Shakespeare and his contemporaries think at all in terms of "race"? Examining the depiction of cultural, religious, and ethnic difference in Shakespeare's plays, Ania Loomba considers how seventeenth-century ideas differed from the later ideologies of "race" that emerged during colonialism, as well as from older ideas about barbarism, blackness, and religious difference. Accessible yet nuanced analysis of the plays explores how Shakespeare's ideas of race were shaped by beliefs about color, religion, nationality, class, money and gender.

Shakespeare and Race

Author : Imtiaz H. Habib
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Drama
ISBN : STANFORD:36105028617731

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Shakespeare and Race by Imtiaz H. Habib Pdf

Shakespeare and Race is a provocative new study that reveals a connection between the subject of race in Shakespeare and the advent of early English colonialism. Citing generally neglected archival evidence, Imtiaz Habib argues that a small population of captured Indians and Africans brought to England during the 16th century provided the impetus for Elizabethan constructions of race rather than existing European traditions in which blackness was represented metaphorically. He explores Tudor and Stuart dramatic representations of black characters, focusing specifically on how race affected Shakespeare personally and historically over the course of his career. Using postcolonial paradigms combined with neo-Marxist, feminist, and psychoanalytic insights, Habib discusses the possible existence of a black woman that Shakespeare knew and wrote about in his Sonnets and examines the design of his black male characters, including Aaron, Othello, and Caliban. Shakespeare and Race represents a significant contribution that will fascinate scholars of literature as well as those interested in the cultural impact of colonialism.

Things of Darkness

Author : Kim F. Hall
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2018-09-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781501725456

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Things of Darkness by Kim F. Hall Pdf

The "Ethiope," the "tawny Tartar," the "woman blackamoore," and "knotty Africanisms"—allusions to blackness abound in Renaissance texts. Kim F. Hall's eagerly awaited book is the first to view these evocations of blackness in the contexts of sexual politics, imperialism, and slavery in early modern England. Her work reveals the vital link between England's expansion into realms of difference and otherness—through exploration and colonialism-and the highly charged ideas of race and gender which emerged. How, Hall asks, did new connections between race and gender figure in Renaissance ideas about the proper roles of men and women? What effect did real racial and cultural difference have on the literary portrayal of blackness? And how did the interrelationship of tropes of race and gender contribute to a modern conception of individual identity? Hall mines a wealth of sources for answers to these questions: travel literature from Sir John Mandeville's Travels to Leo Africanus's History and Description of Africa; lyric poetry and plays, from Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra and The Tempest to Ben Jonson's Masque of Blackness; works by Emilia Lanyer, Philip Sidney, John Webster, and Lady Mary Wroth; and the visual and decorative arts. Concentrating on the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, Hall shows how race, sexuality, economics, and nationalism contributed to the formation of a modern ( white, male) identity in English culture. The volume includes a useful appendix of not readily accessible Renaissance poems on blackness.

Racism, Misogyny, and the Othello Myth

Author : Celia R. Daileader
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2005-08-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521848784

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Racism, Misogyny, and the Othello Myth by Celia R. Daileader Pdf

A discussion of inter-racial sexual relations in Anglo-American literature from the English Renaissance to today.

The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare and Race

Author : Ayanna Thompson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 518 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2021-02-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781108623292

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The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare and Race by Ayanna Thompson Pdf

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.

The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare and Race

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 721 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2024-02-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780192654809

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The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare and Race by Anonim Pdf

Premodern critical race studies, long intertwined with Shakespeare studies, has broadened our understanding of the definitions and discourse of race and racism to include not only phenotype, but also religious and political identity, regional, national, and linguistic difference, and systems of differentiation based upon culture and custom. Replete with fresh readings of the plays and poems, The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare and Race brings together some of the most important scholars thinking about the subject today. The volume offers a thorough overview of the most significant theoretical and methodological paradigms such as critical race theory, feminist, and postcolonial studies; a dynamic look at intersections of race with queer, trans, disability, and indigenous studies; and a vibrant array of new approaches from ecocriticism, to animality, and human rights, from book history, to scholarly editing, and repertory studies; and an exploration of Shakespeare and race in our contemporary moment through discussions of political activism, pedagogy, visual arts, film, and theatre. Woven through the collection are the voices of practicing theatre professionals who have grappled with the challenges of race and racism both in performance and in the profession itself.

A Feminist Companion to Shakespeare

Author : Dympna Callaghan
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 581 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2016-05-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781118501269

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A Feminist Companion to Shakespeare by Dympna Callaghan Pdf

The question is not whether Shakespeare studies needs feminism, but whether feminism needs Shakespeare. This is the explicitly political approach taken in the dynamic and newly updated edition of A Feminist Companion to Shakespeare. Provides the definitive feminist statement on Shakespeare for the 21st century Updates address some of the newest theatrical andcreative engagements with Shakespeare, offering fresh insights into Shakespeare’s plays and poems, and gender dynamics in early modern England Contributors come from across the feminist generations and from various stages in their careers to address what is new in the field in terms of historical and textual discovery Explores issues vital to feminist inquiry, including race, sexuality, the body, queer politics, social economies, religion, and capitalism In addition to highlighting changes, it draws attention to the strong continuities of scholarship in this field over the course of the history of feminist criticism of Shakespeare The previous edition was a recipient of a Choice Outstanding Academic Title award; this second edition maintains its coverage and range, and bringsthe scholarship right up to the present day