Description
An ambitious edited collection that traces white people's racial identification with Shakespeare from the early modern stage through to the 19th century and present day.
About the Author
Arthur L. Little, Jr. is an associate professor of English at UCLA, USA. He is the author of Shakespeare Jungle Fever: Re-Visions of Race, Rape, and Sacrifice (2000) and Shakespeare and Race Theory (forthcoming, The Arden Shakespeare).
Reviews
Expressing ideas that have developed over several decades of brave and tenacious scholarship, this collection opens a new chapter in the study of Shakespeare and the study of race. It sets out a clear demand for future scholarship, artistic practice, and activism: to produce a Shakespeare that is about "more than whiteness." With searching intellectual power and heart, White People In Shakespeare demonstrates why the critique of "whiteness" is a precondition for understanding Shakespeare in the 21st Century. * Dr. Michael Witmore, Director of the Folger Shakespeare Library, USA *
This big and provocative gathering of established and new voices gives us much of what Shakespeare had to say, in character and verse, about whiteness, as there were just beginning to be "white people." Its contributors likewise show the troubling reach of Shakespeare's genius in reproducing hegemonic whiteness across generations. * David Roediger, Foundation Professor of American Studies, University of Kansas, USA *
Book Information
ISBN 9781350285668
Author Arthur L. Little, Jr.
Format Paperback
Page Count 320
Imprint The Arden Shakespeare
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC