Colorblind Shakespeare : new perspectives on race and performance / edited by Ayanna Thompson.

Other author Thompson, Ayanna, 1972-
Format Book
Publication InfoNew York : Routledge, ©2006.
Descriptionxvii, 262 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Supplemental ContentTable of contents only
Supplemental ContentPublisher description
Subjects

Contents Practicing a theory/theorizing a practice : an introduction to Shakespearean colorblind casting / Ayanna Thompson -- Ocular revisions : re-casting Othello in text and performance / Angela C. Pao -- Colorblind casting in single-sex Shakespeare / Sujata Iyengar -- Faux show : falling into history in Kenneth Branagh's Love's labour's lost / Courtney Lehmann -- When race matters : reading race in Richard III and Macbeth / Lisa M. Anderson -- Ira Aldridge, Shakespeare, and color-conscious performances in nineteenth-century Europe / Krystyna Kujawinska Courtney -- My own private Shakespeare, or, Am I deluding myself? / Antonio Ocampo-Guzman -- In the blood : William Shakespeare, August Wilson, and a black director / Ayanna Thompson interviews Timothy Douglas -- Civic ShakesPR : middlebrow multiculturalism, white television, and the color bind / Richard Burt -- Gestures of performance : rethinking race in contemporary Shakespeare / Margo Hendricks -- The Cleopatra complex : white actresses on the interracial "classic" stage / Celia R. Daileader -- The Chicago Shakespeare Theatre's rose rage : whiteness, terror, and the fleshwork of theatre in a post-colorblind age / Francesca T. Royster -- The blind side in colorblind casting / Peter Erickson.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2006005526
ISBN0415978017
ISBN0415978025 (pbk.)
ISBN9780415978026
ISBN9780415978019

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