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

  • Accession number

    83421084

  • Class

    Reading Room - 72/SHA/THO

  • ISBN

    0415978017, 0415978025 (pbk.)

  • Language

    English

  • Physical description

    xvii, 262 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

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Bibliography, etc. note: Includes bibliographical references and index. Formatted contents note: Practicing a theory/theorizing a practice : an introduction to Shakespearean colorblind casting / Ayanna Thompson -- Ocular revisions : re-casting Othello in text and performance / Angela Pao -- Colorblind casting in single-sex Shakespeare / Sujata Iyengar -- Faux show : falling into history in Kenneth Branagh's Loves labours lost / Courtney Lehmann -- When race matters : reading race in Richard III and Macbeth / Lisa 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 -- ShakesPR : middlebrow multiculturalism, white television, and the color bind / Richard Burt -- Gestures of performance : re-thinking race in contemporary Shakespeare / Margo Hendricks -- The Cleopatra complex : white actresses on the interracial "classic" stage / Celia R. Daileader - The Chicago Shakespeare Theater's Rose rage : whiteness, terror, and the fleshwork of theatre in a post-colorblind age / Francesca T. Royster - Afterword : The blind side in colorblind casting.