1st Edition
Shakespeare’s Contested Nations Race, Gender, and Multicultural Britain in Performances of the History Plays
By L. Monique Pittman
Copyright 2022
260 Pages
by
Routledge
260 Pages
by
Routledge
260 Pages
by
Routledge
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Shakespeare’s Contested Nations argues that performances of Shakespearean history at British institutional venues between 2000 and 2016 manifest a post-imperial nostalgia that fails to tell the nation’s story in ways that account for the agential impact of women and people of color, thus foreclosing promising opportunities to re-examine the nation’s multicultural past, present, and future in... Read more
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Representing the Nation’s History
- Staging the Multiethnic Nation: Boyd and Hytner at the Millennial Threshold
- Shakespeare and the Cultural Olympiad: Gender, Race, and the British Nation in the BBC’s Hollow Crown, Series One
- Hollow Refuge: The BBC’s The Wars of the Roses and This Fortress Built by Nature
- The Disappearing Moor: Race, Authenticity, and the Nation’s History in Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies
- The Trouble with History: Intersections of Nation, Race, and Gender in King Charles III
- Epilogue: The Case of Two Richards
- References
Index
Biography
L. Monique Pittman is Professor of English and Director of the J. N. Andrews Honors Program at Andrews University, USA.
