Shakespeare, Race and Performance

Delia Jarrett-Macauley is the author of The Life of Una Marson 190-65, and of the Orwell Prize-winning novel Moses, Citizen and Me.

Introduction Delia Jarrett-Macauley

Part One: Shaping the Debate

1. The Bard Abroad in Africa Eldred Duromi Jones

2. Classical Binglish.

Binglish-A Jungli Approach to Multiculturalism Jatinder Verma

3. Diversity -- Challenge and Gain Naseem Khan

4. Ayanna Thompson in conversation with Dawn Monique Williams

Part Two: The Diverse Bard on Stage

5. ‘Why then the world’s mine oyster/Which I with sword will open’

Africa, diaspora, Shakespeare: Cross-cultural encounters on the global stage Michael Pearce

6. Will we ever have a Black Desdemona? Inclusive Casting at the RSC Lynette Goddard

7. Much Ado about Knotting: Arranged Marriages in British-Asian Shakespeare Productions Varsha Panjwani

8. David Thacker and Bill Alexander: mainstream directors and the development of multicultural Shakespeare Jami Rogers

9. Conversations with Black Actors Michael Macmillan

Part Three: The Creative Professionals

10. 1960s Birmingham to 2012 Stratford-upon-Avon Iqbal Khan

11. Dancing Since Strapped to their Mothers’ Backs: Movement Directing on the RSC’s African Julius Caesar Diane Alison-Mitchell

12. Tropical Shakespeare Pat Cumper

Part Four: Changing Spaces, Changing Minds

13. ‘Souks, Saris and Shakespeare’ Sita Thomas

14. Brave New Bard: Shakespeare and Intersectional Feminism in the British Classroom Terri Power

Index