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Author Thompson, Ayanna

Title Colorblind Shakespeare : New Perspectives on Race and Performance
Published London : Taylor and Francis, 2016

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Description 1 online resource (281 pages)
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 Lyengar -- 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 Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Dramatic production.
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Stage history.
SUBJECT Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 fast
Shakespeare, William. idszbz
Shakespeare, William. swd
Subject Theater -- Casting.
Colorblind casting (Performing arts)
Race in literature.
Colorblind casting (Performing arts)
Race in literature
Theater
Theater -- Casting
Aufführungspraxis
Rassenfrage
Aufführung.
Drama.
Rassenfrage.
Rollenbesetzung.
Theater.
Genre/Form Aufsatzsammlung.
Form Electronic book
Author Loomba, Ania
ISBN 9781135867041
1135867046