The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare and Race (Oxford Handbooks)

Presents current scholarship on race and racism in Shakespeare's works. The Handbook offers an overview of approaches used in early modern critical race studies through fresh readings of the plays; an exploration of new methodologies and archives; and sustained engagement with race in contemporary performance, adaptation, and activism. Cover THE OXFORD HANDBOOK OF SHAKESPEARE AND RACE Copyright Contents List of Figures Notes on Contributors 1. Introduction PART I SHAKESPEARE AND RACE: AN OVERVIEW 2. Shakespeare and Critical Race Theory 3. Shakespeare, Race, and Feminist Critique 4. Naturalizing Race and Racialized Geographies 5. ‘Thrice fairer than myself’: Reading Desire and the Ends of Whiteness in Venus and Adonis 6. The Imperatives of Race Consciousness in 21st-​Century Shakespearean Performance 7. Shakespeare and Race: The Oral Histories 8. Shakespeare, Race, and Adaptation PART II ARCHIVES AND INTERSECTIONS 9. The Oral Histories: Identity 10. Monstrous Indigeneity and the Discourse of Race in Shakespeare’s England 11. Shakespeare, Race, and Queer Studies 12. Shakespeare, Race, and Disability: Othello and the Wheeling Strangers of Here and Everywhere 13. Trans Studies at the Crossroad: From Racialized Invisibility to Gendered Legibility 14. Racialized Genders on the Shakespearean Stage 15. Shakespeare and Mixed Race 16. ‘Give me conquer’d Egypt’: Re-​Orienting Egypt in Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra 17. Coordinating Racisms in The Merchant of Venice 18. Shakespeare, Race, and Spain 19. Melancholy Nature: Religion and Bad Faith in Shakespeare 20. Shakespeare, Race, and Movement 21. The Oral Histories: On Corporeality 22. Dispossessed and Unaccommodated: Race and Animality in King Lear 23. ‘Let fair humanity abhor the deed’: Shakespeare, Race, and Human Rights 24. Shakespeare, Race, and Science: The Study of Nature and/​as the Making of Race 25. Race in Repertory 26. ‘Rac’d all over their Bodies’: Charting the Study of Shakespeare, Race, and Book History PART III SHAKESPEARE AND RACE NOW 27. An Interview with Artist Fred Wilson, 30 July 2021 28. Shakespeare and Race on Screen: Racial Journeys in Indian Cinema 29. Casting Shakespeare Today 30. The Oral Histories: Creating Spaces 31. Shakespeare, Race, and Appropriation 32. The Oral Histories: Staging Shakespeare and Race 33. Editing Shakespeare and Race 34. Translation at the Intersections of Shakespeare and Race 35. The Oral Histories: Approaches to Acting and Staging 36. Teaching Shakespeare and Race in Secondary Classrooms: Professional and Political Dimensions of Evolving Pedagogies for Diverse Classrooms 37. ‘In her prophetic fury’: Teaching Critical Modes of Intervention in Shakespeare Studies 38. Resisting Analogies: Refusing Other Othellos in Shakespearean Cinema 39. Teaching Shakespeare and Race: Techniques and Technologies 40. Teaching Shakespeare and Race in Communities of Colour: Reflections from the US-​Mexico Border 41. The Oral Histories: My Relationship with Shakespeare 42. ‘Reading’ Shakespeare as Political Activism Index Premodern critical race studies, long intertwined with Shakespeare studies, has broadened our understanding of the definitions and discourse of race and racism to include not only phenotype, but also religious and political identity, regional, national, and linguistic difference, and systems of differentiation based upon culture and custom. Replete with fresh readings of the plays and poems, The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare and Race brings together some of the most important scholars thinking about the subject today. The volume offers a thorough overview of the most significant theoretical and methodological paradigms such as critical race theory, feminist, and postcolonial studies; a dynamic look at intersections of race with queer, trans, disability, and indigenous studies; and a vibrant array of new approaches from ecocriticism, to animality, and human rights, from book history, to scholarly editing, and repertory studies; and an exploration of Shakespeare and race in our contemporary moment through discussions of political activism, pedagogy, visual arts, film, and theatre. Woven through the collection are the voices of practicing theatre professionals who have grappled with the challenges of race and racism both in performance and in the profession itself.