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[Pages:27]SHAKESPEARE AND RACE

EDITED BY CATHERINE M. S. ALEXANDER

AND STANLEY WELLS

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Shakespeare and race / edited by Catherine M. S. Alexander and Stanley Wells.

p. cm.

ISBN 0 521 77046 7 (hardback) ? ISB N 0 521 77938 3 (pbk)

1. Shakespeare, William, 1564?1616 ? Views on race. 2. Literature and

society ? England ? History ? 16th century. 3. Literature and

society ? England ? History ? 17th century. 4. Shakespeare, William,

1564?1616 ? Characters ? Blacks. 5. Blacks in literature. 6. Race in literature.

I. Alexander, Catherine M. S. II. Wells, Stanley W., 1930?

PR3069.R33 S5 2000

822.33? dc21

99-089004

ISBN 0 521 77046 7 hardback ISBN 0 521 77938 3 paperback

Contents

List of illustrations List of contributors Editorial note

page vii viii ix

1 Surveying `race' in Shakespeare

1

Margo Hendricks

2 A portrait of a Moor

23

Bernard Harris

3 Elizabethans and foreigners

37

G. K. Hunter

4 `Spanish' Othello: the making of Shakespeare's Moor

64

Barbara Everett

5 Shakespeare and the living dramatist

82

Wole Soyinka

6 Shakespeare in the trenches

101

Balz Engler

7 Bowdler and Britannia: Shakespeare and

the national libido

112

Michael Dobson

8 `Shakespur and the Jewbill'

124

James Shapiro

9 Wilhelm S and Shylock

139

Laurence Lerner

10 Cruelty, King Lear and the South African Land Act 1913

151

Martin Orkin

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11 Caliban and Ariel write back

165

Jonathan Bate

12 Casting black actors: beyond Othellophilia

177

Celia R. Daileader

13 `Delicious traffick': racial and religious difference

on early modern stages

203

Ania Loomba

Index

225

Illustrations

1 Portrait of the Moorish Ambassador to Queen Elizabeth, 1600?01 (University of Birmingham, UK)

2 Hugh Quarshie as Aaron in Titus Andronicus, Royal Shakespeare Company, 1982 (Photo: Shakespeare Centre Library)

3 Hugh Quarshie as Tybalt in Romeo and Juliet, Royal Shakespeare Company, 1986 (Photo: Shakespeare Centre Library)

4 Hugh Quarshie as Loveless in The Relapse, Royal Shakespeare Company, 1995 (Photo: Shakespeare Centre Library)

5 Ray Fearon as Brachiano in The White Devil, Royal Shakespeare Company, 1996 (Photo: Shakespeare Centre Library)

6 Ray Fearon as Paris in Troilus and Cressida, Royal Shakespeare Company, 1996 (Photo: Shakespeare Centre Library)

7 Ray Fearon as Paris in Troilus and Cressida, Royal Shakespeare Company, 1996 (Photo: Shakespeare Centre Library)

8 Evroy Dear as Ferdinand in The Tempest, Royal Shakespeare Company, 1998 (Photo: Shakespeare Centre Library)

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