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White people in Shakespeare, essays on race, culture and the elite, edited by Arthur L. Little, Jr

eng

illustrations

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non fiction

White people in Shakespeare

1345279612

edited by Arthur L. Little, Jr

essays on race, culture and the elite

"This edited collection looks at how Shakespeare's early modern stage turned the English masses into 'white people' and how white people, especially from the 19th century forward, used Shakespeare to rationalize and aestheticize the privileges granted them as white people. This collection explores the relationship between Shakespeare and whiteness in the early modern past, the role of Shakespeare in white-nation-making, and the function of white Shakespeare and white Shakespeareans in the academy. White People in Shakespeare argues that early modern English theatre was crucial to the development of whiteness as an embodied identity and that this legacy continues to shape Shakespeare's reception in many areas of culture. The scholars contributing to this collection have expertise in theater studies, global studies, race studies, white studies, religious studies, feminist studies, presentism, new historicism, and archival studies. The collection moves across most of Shakespeare's genres, including his poetry, and explores how whiteness affects the reception of Shakespeare's work and uses made of it in the theater, the classroom, and other key sites of culture"--, Provided by publisher

Introduction: "Assembling an Aristocracy of Skin" / Arthur L. Little, Jr., University of California, Los Angeles, USA -- Two loves I have of comfort and despair:' The Circle of Whiteness in the Sonnets / Imtiaz Habib (Old Dominion University, USA) -- Staging the Blazon: Black and White and Red All Over / Evelyn Gajowski (University of Nevada, USA) -- Red Blood on White Saints: Affective Piety, Racial Violence, and Measure for Measure / Dennis Austin Britton (University of New Hampshire, USA) -- Antonio's White Penis: Category Trading in The Merchant of Venice / Ian Smith (Lafayette College, USA) -- 'Envy Pale of Hew': Whiteness and Division in 'Fair Verona' / Kyle Grady (University of California, USA) -- "Shake thou to look on't": Shakespearean White Hands / David Sterling Brown (Binghamton University, SUNY, USA) -- Pales in the Flood': Blood, Soil, and Whiteness in Shakespeare's Henriad / Andrew Clark Wagner (University of California, USA) -- Disrupting White Genealogies in Cymbeline / Joyce MacDonald (University of Kentucky, USA) -- White Freedom, White Property, and White Tears: Classical Racial Paradigms and the Construction of Whiteness in Julius Caesar / Katherine Gillen (Texas A&M University, USA) -- Hamlet and the Education of the White Self / Eric De Barros (American University of Sharjah, UAE) -- 'The Blank of What He Was': Dryden, Newton, and the Discipline of Shakespeare's White People / Justin P. Shaw (Clark University, USA) -- 'I saw them in my visage': Whiteness, Early Modern Race Studies, and Me / Margo Hendricks (University of California, USA) -- A Theatre Practice against the Unbearable Whiteness of Shakespeare: In Conversation / Keith Hamilton Cobb (actor, USA), Anchuli Felicia King (playwright and screenwriter, AUS), and Robin Alfriend Kello (University of California, USA) -- White Lies: In Conversation / Peter Sellars (UCLA, USA) and Ayanna Thompson (Arizona State University, USA) -- Can You Be White and Hear This?: The Racial Art of Listening in American Moor and Desdemona / Kim F. Hall (Barnard College, USA) -- 'The soul of a great white poet': Shakespearean Educations and the Civil Rights Era / Jason M. Demeter (Norfolk State University, USA) -- 'White Anger: Shakespeare's my Meat' / Ruben Espinosa (Arizona State University, USA) -- The White Shakespearean and Daily Practice / Jean E. Howard (Columbia University, USA) -- No Exeunt: The Urgent Work of Critical Whiteness / Peter Erickson (Northwestern University, USA)