Repositioning Shakespeare

Thomas Cartelli is Professor of English at Muhlenberg College. He is the author of Marlowe, Shakespeare, and the Economy of Theatrical Experience, which was awarded the 1991 Hoffman Prize for Distinguished Publication on Christopher Marlowe.

INTRODUCTION; Part 1 DEMOCRATIC VISTAS; Chapter 1 NATIVISM, NATIONALISM, AND THE COMMON MAN IN AMERICAN CONSTRUCTIONS OF SHAKESPEARE; Chapter 2 SHAKESPEARE AT HULL HOUSE: JANE ADDAMS'S “A MODERN LEAR” AND THE 1894 PULLMAN STRIKE; Chapter 3 SHAKESPEARE, 1916: CALIBAN BY THE YELLOW SANDS AND THE NEW DRAMAS OF DEMOCRACY; Part 2 PROSPERO'S BOOKS; Chapter 4 PROSPERO IN AFRICA: THE TEMPEST AS COLONIALIST TEXT AND PRETEXT; Chapter 5 AFTER THE TEMPEST : SHAKESPEARE, POSTCOLONIALITY, AND MICHELLE CLIFF'S NEW, NEW WORLD MIRANDA; Part 3 THE OTHELLO COMPLEX; Chapter 6 ENSLAVING THE MOOR: OTHELLO, OROONOKO, AND THE RECUPERATION OF INTRACTABILITY; Chapter 7 “LIKE OTHELLO”: TAYEB SALIH'S SEASON OF MIGRATION AND POSTCOLONIAL SELF-FASHIONING; Conclusion; Notes; Works Cited INDEX;