White People in Shakespeare

Arthur L. Little, Jr. is an associate professor of English at UCLA, USA. He is the author of Shakespeare Jungle Fever: Re-Visions of Race, Rape, and Sacrifice (2000) and Shakespeare and Race Theory (forthcoming, The Arden Shakespeare).

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List of Contributors

Introduction: ‘Assembling an Aristocracy of Skin’
Arthur L. Little, Jr. (University of California, USA)


Part I: Shakespeare’s White People

Chapter 1

‘Two loves I have of comfort and despair:’ The Circle of Whiteness in the Sonnets
Imtiaz Habib (Old Dominion University, USA)

Chapter 2

Staging the Blazon: Black and White and Red All Over
Evelyn Gajowski (University of Nevada, USA)

Chapter 3

Red Blood on White Saints: Affective Piety, Racial Violence, and Measure for Measure
Dennis Austin Britton (University of New Hampshire, USA)

Chapter 4

Antonio’s White Penis: Category Trading in The Merchant of Venice
Ian Smith (Lafayette College, USA)

Chapter 5

‘Envy Pale of Hew’: Whiteness and Division in ‘Fair Verona’
Kyle Grady (University of California, USA)

Chapter 6

“Shake thou to look on’t”: Shakespearean White Hands
David Sterling Brown (Binghamton University, SUNY, USA)

Chapter 7

‘Pales in the Flood’: Blood, Soil, and Whiteness in Shakespeare’s Henriad
Andrew Clark Wagner (University of California, USA)

Chapter 8

Disrupting White Genealogies in Cymbeline
Joyce MacDonald (University of Kentucky, USA)

Chapter 9

White Freedom, White Property, and White Tears: Classical Racial Paradigms and the Construction of Whiteness in Julius Caesar

Katherine Gillen (Texas A&M University, USA)

Chapter 10

Hamlet and the Education of the White Self
Eric De Barros (American University of Sharjah, UAE)

Chapter 11

‘The Blank of What He Was’: Dryden, Newton, and the Discipline of Shakespeare’s White People

Justin P. Shaw (Clark University, USA)


Part II: White People’s Shakespeare

Chapter 12

Can You Be White and Hear This?: The Racial Art of Listening in American Moor and Desdemona

Kim Hall (Barnard College, USA)

Chapter 13

White Lies: In Conversation

Peter Sellars (UCLA, USA) and Ayanna Thompson (Arizona State University, USA)

Chapter 14

A Theatre Practice against the Unbearable Whiteness of Shakespeare: In Conversation

Keith Hamilton Cobb (actor, USA), Anchuli Felicia King (playwright and screenwriter, AUS), and Robin Alfriend Kello (University of California, USA)

Chapter 15

‘The soul of a great white poet’: Shakespearean Educations and the Civil Rights Era
Jason M. Demeter (Norfolk State University, USA)

Chapter 16

‘White Anger: Shakespeare’s my Meat’
Ruben Espinosa (Arizona State University, USA)

Chapter 17

‘I saw them in my visage’: Whiteness, Race Studies, and Early Modern Culture
Margo Hendricks (University of California, USA)

Chapter 18
The White Shakespearean and Daily Practice
Jean E. Howard (Columbia University, USA)

Chapter 19
No Exeunt: The Urgent Work of Critical Whiteness
Peter Erickson (Northwestern University, USA)

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