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ix, 233 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
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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 |
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"This volume draws together thirteen important essays on the concept of race in Shakespeare's drama. The authors, who themselves reflect racial and geographical diversity, explore issues of ethnography, politics, religion, identity, nationalism and the distribution of power in Shakespeare's plays."--Jacket |
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Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Criticism and interpretation
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Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Characters -- Black people
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Literature and society -- England -- History -- 16th century
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Literature and society -- England -- History -- 17th century
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Black people in literature
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Race in literature
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Alexander, Catherine M. S
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Wells, Stanley, 1930-
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