White People in Shakespeare: Essays on Race, Culture and the Elite

Shakespeare has been used by white people to define and bolster their cultural and racial identity since the court of Queen Elizabeth I. "White People in Shakespeare" explores how Shakespeare's work was crucial to the early modern development of whiteness as an embodied identity and the institutional dissemination of a white Shakespeare in contemporary theatres, politics, classrooms, and other key sites of culture.

Format: Hardback
Length: 320 pages
Publication date: 26 January 2023
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Since the court of Queen Elizabeth I, through the early modern English theatre to the storming of the United States Capitol on 6 January 2021, white people have used Shakespeare to define their cultural and racial identity and authority
and authority. White People in Shakespeare unravels this complex cultural history to examine just how crucial Shakespeares work was to the early modern development of whiteness as an embodied identity, as well as the institutional dissemination of a white Shakespeare in contemporary theatres, politics, classrooms, and other key sites of culture. Featuring contributors from a wide range of disciplines, the collection moves across Shakespeares plays and poetry and between the early modern and our own time to interrogate these relationships. Split into two parts, Shakespeares White People and White Peoples Shakespeare, it explores a variety of topics, ranging from the education of the white self in Hamlet, or affective piety and racial violence in Measure for Measure, to Shakespearean education and the civil rights era, and interpretations of whiteness in more contemporary work such as American Moor and Desdemona.

Since the court of Queen Elizabeth I, through the early modern English theatre to the storming of the United States Capitol on 6 January 2021, white people have used Shakespeare to define their cultural and racial identity
and authority. White People in Shakespeare unravels this complex cultural history to examine just how crucial Shakespeares work was to the early modern development of whiteness as an embodied identity, as well as the institutional dissemination of a white Shakespeare in contemporary theatres, politics, classrooms, and other key sites of culture. Featuring contributors from a wide range of disciplines, the collection moves across Shakespeares plays and poetry and between the early modern and our own time to interrogate these relationships. Split into two parts, Shakespeares White People and White Peoples Shakespeare, it explores a variety of topics, ranging from the education of the white self in Hamlet, or affective piety and racial violence in Measure for Measure, to Shakespearean education and the civil rights. Rights era, and interpretations of whiteness in more contemporary work such as American Moor and Desdemona.

Weight: 650g
Dimension: 241 x 164 x 24 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781350283640