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Illustrations Foreword Ania Loomba Acknowledgments 1. Practicing a Theory/Theorizing a Practice: An Introduction to Shakespearean Colorblind Casting Ayanna Thompson Section One: The Semiotics of (Not) Viewing Race 2. Ocular Revisions: Re-Casting Othello in Text and Performance Angela Pao 3. Colorblind Casting in Single-Sex Shakespeare Sujata Iyengar 4. Faux Show: Falling into History in Kenneth Branagh¿s Love¿s Labour¿s Lost Courtney Lehmann 5. When Race Matters: Reading Race in Richard III and Macbeth Lisa Anderson 6. Ira Aldridge, Shakespeare, and Color-Conscious Performances in Nineteenth-Century Europe Krystyna Kujawinska Courtney Section Two: Practicing Colorblindness: The Players Speak 7. My Own Private Shakespeare; Or, Am I Deluding Myself? Antonio Ocampo-Guzman 8. In the Blood: William Shakespeare, August Wilson, and a Black Director Ayanna Thompson interviews Timothy Douglas Section Three: Future Possibilities/Future Directions 9. Civic ShakesPR: Middlebrow Multiculturalism, White Television, and the Color Bind Richard Burt 10. Gestures of Performance: Re-thinking Race in Contemporary Shakespeare Margo Hendricks 11. The Cleopatra Complex: White Actresses on the Inter-Racial ¿Classic¿ Stage Celia Daileader 12. The Chicago Shakespeare Theatre¿s Rose Rage: Whiteness, Terror, and the Fleshwork of Theatre in a Post-Colorblind Age Francesca Royster Afterword: The Blind Side in Colorblind Casting Peter Erickson Notes on Contributors Index
Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication:
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Dramatic production.
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Stage history.
Theater -- Casting.
Race in literature.