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Description

This volume argues that, given a Western propensity to identify Shakespeare's work with “the human”, his drama plays a crucial and constitutive part in the ways race is theorized today. Offering the very first critical overview of the work that has been carried out in Shakespeare and race studies, Arthur L. Little, Jr.'s study reinvigorates the field by suggesting new directions this scholarship may take in the future.

Table of Contents

Introduction
1: Census, Consensus, and Censorship: Repopulating the Early Modern Stage with Black Bodies
2: Race, Gender, Politics and the Rise of Critical Race Theory in Early Modern Studies
3: Race After History
4: Shakespeare's Blacks: The Critical State of Things
5: From Practice to Theory: Shakespeare/Race/Performativity
6: Shakespeare and the Global Memes of Race
7: Disciplining Race and Early Modern Knowledge
Afterword: Hamlet's Modernity from Purgatory to Afro-Pessimism
Bibliography
Index

Product details

The Arden Shakespeare
Published 18 Apr 2024
Format Ebook (Epub & Mobi)
Edition 1st
Extent 208
ISBN 9781350002968
Imprint The Arden Shakespeare
Series Shakespeare and Theory
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

About the contributors

Author

Arthur L. Little, Jr.

Arthur L. Little, Jr. is Associate Professor at th…

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