Table of Contents

List of illustrations; List of contributors; Editorial note; 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: Shakespeare and the national libido Michael Dobson; 8. 'Shakespur and the Jewbill' James Shapiro; 9. Wilhelm S and Shylock Laurence Lerner; 10. Cruelty, King Lear and the South African Land Act 1913 Martin Orkin; 11. Caliban and Ariel write back Jonathan Bate; 12. Casting black actors: beyond Othellophilia Celia R. Daileader; 13. 'Delicious traffick': racial and religious difference on early modern stages Ania Loomba; Index.

Promotional Information

This volume, first published in 2000, draws together thirteen important essays on the concept of race in Shakespeare's drama.

Reviews

'This collection of essays is extremely useful to the academic working on issues of ethnicity, difference, or national identity in early modern drama … it is a valuable handbook.' Journal of the Shakespeare Society of Southern Africa