Shakespeare in the Theatre: Peter Sellars

Ayanna Thompson is Professor of English at George Washington University. She is the co-author with Laura Turchi of Teaching Shakespeare with Purpose: A Student-Centred Approach (2016), and the author of Passing Strange: Shakespeare, Race, and Contemporary America (2011) and Performing Race and Torture on the Early Modern Stage (2008). She wrote the new introduction for the revised Arden3 Othello, and is the editor of Weyward Macbeth: Intersections of Race and Performance (2010) and Colorblind Shakespeare: New Perspectives on Race and Performance (2006). Professor Thompson is the President Elect of the Shakespeare Association of America.

1. Introduction
2. Sellars in Context
3. Approach, Process, Technique
4. The Color of Classics: Casting
5. Innovation and Accessibility
6. Conclusion
7. Chronology of Peter Sellars’s Shakespeare productions
8. Works Cited
9. Index