| Description |
1 online resource |
| Series |
Palgrave Shakespeare studies |
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Palgrave Shakespeare studies.
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| Contents |
1. Introduction: "A cemetery inhabited by highly vocal ghosts" -- 2. Claiming wisdom: Re-reading Othello in Gayl Jones' Mosquito -- 3. Uncrossed Lovers: Remembering Race in Romeo and Juliet and Mississippi Masala -- 4. Bodies, Race, and Performance in Antony and Cleopatra and Derek Walcott's A Branch of the Blue Nile: Memory's Signatures -- 5. Echoes of Harlem: Women's Memories in Othello and Harlem Duet -- 6. 'The Right Foundation': Re-racing Romance from The Taming of the Shrew to Deliver Us from Eva -- 7. Afterword: Adapting Shakespeare, Forgetting Race in King Charles III: Future History? |
| Summary |
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 Shakespeares 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 womens simultaneous physical absence and imaginative presence, this book argues that modern Shakespearean adaptation is a primary means for materializing black womens often elusive presence in the plays, serving as a vital staging place for historical and political inquiry into racial formation in Shakespeares 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 |
| Notes |
Includes index |
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Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on August 31, 2020) |
| Subject |
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Adaptations.
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| SUBJECT |
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 fast |
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Black people in the theater
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Women, Black, in literature.
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Women in literature.
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Black people in the theater
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Women, Black, in literature
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Women in literature
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| Genre/Form |
Adaptations
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Adaptations.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9783030506803 |
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3030506800 |
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