Colorblind Shakespeare : new perspectives on race and performance / edited by Ayanna Thompson.
| Other author | Thompson, Ayanna, 1972- |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | New York : Routledge, ©2006. |
| Description | xvii, 262 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Table of contents only |
| Supplemental Content | Publisher 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 note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| LCCN | 2006005526 |
| ISBN | 0415978017 |
| ISBN | 0415978025 (pbk.) |
| ISBN | 9780415978026 |
| ISBN | 9780415978019 |
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| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
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| Joyner | Item has been checked out | PR3091 .C63 2006 | Due 11/28/2026 | Want This? |