Masquing Blackness in The Tempest: Shakespeare, Caliban, and Jonson [Paperback]

Acknowledgements

Introduction: Early Modern Blackness in Context

Chapter 1: This Thing of Darkness: the Mechanics of Blackness and Colonialism in The Tempest

Chapter 2: And You the Blacker Devil: Jonsons Masque of Blackness and Othello

Chapter 3: Masquing Caliban: The Tempest and Masque of Blackness ?

Chapter 4: This Stain Upon Her: Cymbeline, The Winters Tale, and The Tempest

Chapter 5: Now His Charms are all Oerthrown: The Tempest Post-Lockdown

Coda: The future of The Tempest

Bibliography

Appendices

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Combining early modern historiography with critical race and performance studies, Masquing Blackness offers a historically-contextualized examination of the mechanics of blackness in Shakespeares The Tempest.?

Christina Gutierrez-Dennehy is an Assistant Professor of Theatre History at Western Washington University and a freelance professional director. She is the author of Like a King: Casting Shakespeares Histories for Citizens and Subjects (2020) and the editor of Kingship, Madness and Masculinity on the Early Modern Stage (2022), as well as numerous articles and book chapters on race and representation in early modern theatre and performance. She is also the Co-Producing Artistic Director of the 7 Towers Theatre Company, based in Austin, Texas.

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