Shakespeare Race And Performance

Author : Delia Jarrett-Macauley
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317429443
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare, Race and Performance written by Delia Jarrett-Macauley and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-08-05 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Ayanna Thompson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135867038
Total Pages : 438 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Colorblind Shakespeare written by Ayanna Thompson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-09-12 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Ayanna Thompson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108623298
Total Pages : 518 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare and Race written by Ayanna Thompson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-02-25 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : S. Newstok
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230102166
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Weyward Macbeth written by S. Newstok and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-04-30 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Weyward Macbeth, a volume of entirely new essays, provides innovative, interdisciplinary approaches to the various ways Shakespeare's 'Macbeth' has been adapted and appropriated within the context of American racial constructions. Comprehensive in its scope, this collection addresses the enduringly fraught history of 'Macbeth' in the United States, from its appearance as the first Shakespearean play documented in the American colonies to a proposed Hollywood film version with a black diasporic cast. Over two dozen contributions explore 'Macbeth's' haunting presence in American drama, poetry, film, music, history, politics, acting, and directing — all through the intersections of race and performance.

Author : Ania Loomba
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191587931
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare, Race, and Colonialism written by Ania Loomba and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2002-09-05 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Ayanna Thompson
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0195385853
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Passing Strange written by Ayanna Thompson and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2011-06-09 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Passing Strange offers a trenchant look at the diverse ways Shakespeare relates to race in a variety of cultural producitons in the United States.

Author : E. Lin
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137006501
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare and the Materiality of Performance written by E. Lin and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-09-14 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the MRDS 2013 David Bevington Award for Best New Book in Early Drama Studies! Drawing on a wide variety of primary sources, Lin reconstructs playgoers' typical ways of thinking and feeling and demonstrates how these culturally-trained habits of mind shaped dramatic narratives and the presentational dynamics of onstage action.

Author : Joyce Green MacDonald
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030506800
Total Pages : 183 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shakespearean Adaptation, Race and Memory in the New World written by Joyce Green MacDonald and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-08-24 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As readers head into the second fifty years of the modern critical study of blackness and black characters in Renaissance drama, it has become a critical commonplace to note black female characters’ almost complete absence from Shakespeare’s plays. Despite this physical absence, however, they still play central symbolic roles in articulating definitions of love, beauty, chastity, femininity, and civic and social standing, invoked as the opposite and foil of women who are “fair”. Beginning from this recognition of black women’s simultaneous physical absence and imaginative presence, this book argues that modern Shakespearean adaptation is a primary means for materializing black women’s often elusive presence in the plays, serving as a vital staging place for historical and political inquiry into racial formation in Shakespeare’s world, and our own. Ranging geographically across North America and the Caribbean, and including film and fiction as well as drama as it discusses remade versions of Othello, Romeo and Juliet, Antony and Cleopatra, and The Taming of the Shrew, Shakespearean Adaptation, Race, and Memory in the New World will attract scholars of early modern race studies, gender and performance, and women in Renaissance drama.

Author : Patricia Akhimie
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351125028
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare and the Cultivation of Difference written by Patricia Akhimie and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-01-12 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Ayanna Thompson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1501374028
Total Pages : 145 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Blackface written by Ayanna Thompson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2021-04-08 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New Statesman essential non-fiction book of 2021 Featured in Book Riot's 12 best nonfiction books about Black identity and history A Times Higher Education Book of the Week 2022 Finalist for the Prose Awards (Media and Cultural Studies category) Why are there so many examples of public figures, entertainers, and normal, everyday people in blackface? And why aren't there as many examples of people of color in whiteface? This book explains what blackface is, why it occurred, and what its legacies are in the 21st century. There is a filthy and vile thread-sometimes it's tied into a noose-that connects the first performances of Blackness on English stages, the birth of blackface minstrelsy, contemporary performances of Blackness, and anti-Black racism. Blackface examines that history and provides hope for a future with new performance paradigms. Object Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in The Atlantic.