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Shakespeare and Race, Paperback / softback Book

Shakespeare and Race Paperback / softback

Edited by Catherine M. S. (Shakespeare Centre, Stratford-upon-Avon) Alexander, Stanley (The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, Stratford-upon-Avon) Wells

Paperback / softback

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This volume, first published in 2000, draws together thirteen important essays on the concept of race in Shakespeare's drama.

The authors, who themselves reflect racial and geographical diversity, explore issues of ethnography, politics, religion, identity, nationalism, and the distribution of power in Shakespeare's plays.

The authors write from a variety of perspectives, drawing on Elizabethan and Jacobean historical studies and critical theory.

They attend to performances of the plays in different ages and places, as well as to the text.

An introductory essay sets the context for the ensuing chapters, which reflect shifts in scholarship over the last forty years.

Most are reprinted from volumes of Shakespeare Survey.

They tackle the ethnic implications of Shakespearean drama in South Africa, the Caribbean, Germany and the Arab world as well as England.

A broad range of plays and poems is included, while particular essays focus on Othello, The Merchant of Venice and The Tempest.

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