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.
| ISBN: | 9781108710565 |
| Publication date: | 25th February 2021 |
| Author: | Ayanna Arizona State University Thompson |
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 280 pages |
| Series: | Cambridge Companions to Literature |
| Genres: |
Literary studies: plays and playwrights Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800 Literary studies: general Ethnic studies Classic and pre-20th century plays Theatre studies |