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1. Performing Race and Torture on the Early Modern Stage

   By Ayanna Thompson

   Series: Routledge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture

   Performing Race and Torture on the Early Modern Stage provides the first sustained reading of Restoration plays through a performance theory lens. This approach shows that an analysis of the conjoined performances of torture and race not only reveals the early modern interest in the nature of...

   Published January 9th 2009 by Routledge
2. Colorblind Shakespeare

   New Perspectives on Race and Performance

   Edited by Ayanna Thompson

   The systematic practice of non-traditional or "colorblind" casting began with Joseph Papp's New York Shakespeare Festival in the 1950s. Although colorblind casting has been practiced for half a century now, it still inspires vehement controversy and debate.This collection of fourteen original...

   Published September 11th 2006 by Routledge