Shakespeare and Race

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by Catherine M. S. Alexander,

Edited by Stanley Wells

Cambridge University Press

Due/Published January 2001, 240 pages, paper

ISBN 0521779383

This volume draws together thirteen 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. They write from a variety of perspectives, drawing on Elizabethan and Jacobean historical studies and recent critical theory, attending to performances of the plays, as well as to the text.

Contributors: Margo Hendricks, Bernard Harris, G. K. Hunter, Barbara Everett, Wole Soyinka, Balz Engler, Michael Dobson, James Shapiro, Laurence Lerner, Martin Orkin, Jonathan Bate, Celia Daileader, Ania Loomba

Contents

1. Surveying 'race' in Shakespeare Margo Hendricks
2. A portrait of a Moor Bernard Harris
3. Elizabethans and foreigners G. K. Hunter
4. 'Spanish' Othello: the making of Shakespeare's Moor Barbara Everett
5. Shakespeare and the living dramatist Wole Soyinka
6. Shakespeare in the trenches Balz Engler
7. Bowdler and Britannia Michael Dobson
8. Shakespur and the Jewbill James Shapiro
9. Wilhelm S and Shylock Laurence Lerner
10. Cruelty, King Lear and the South Africa Land Act 1913 Martin Orkin
11. Caliban and Ariel write back Jonathan Bate
12. Shakespeare and Othellophilia Celia Daileader
13. 'Delicious Traffick': Racial and religious difference on early modern stages Ania Loomba