Weyward Macbeth : intersections of race and performance
by
 
Newstok, Scott L., 1973-

Title
Weyward Macbeth : intersections of race and performance

Author
Newstok, Scott L., 1973-

ISBN
9780230616332
 
9780230616424

Publication Information
Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.

Physical Description
xi, 288 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Series
Signs of race
 
Signs of race.

Contents
What is a "weyward" Macbeth? / Weird brothers : what Thomas Middleton's The witch can tell us about race, sex and gender in Macbeth / "Blood will have blood" : violence, slavery, and Macbeth in the antebellum American imagination / The exorcism of Macbeth : Frederick Douglass's appropriation of Shakespeare / Ira Aldridge as Macbeth / Minstrel show Macbeth / Reading Macbeth in texts by and about African Americans, 1903-1944 : race and the problematics of allusive identification / Before Welles : a 1935 Boston production / Black cast conjures white genius : unraveling the mystique of Orson Welles's "Voodoo" Macbeth / After Welles : re -do Voodoo Macbeth / The vo-du Macbeth! : travels and travails of a choreo-drama inspired by the FTP production / A Black actor's guide to the Scottish play, or, why Macbeth matters / Asian-American theatre reimagined : Shogun Macbeth in New York / The Tlingit play : Macbeth and Native Americanism / A post-apocalyptic Macbeth : teatro LA TEA's Macbeth 2029 / Multicultural, multilingual Macbeth / Reflections on Verdi, Macbeth, and non-traditional casting in opera / Ellington's Dark lady / Hip-hop Macbeths, "digitized Blackness," and the millennial minstrel : illegal culture sharing in the virtual classroom / Riddling whiteness, riddling certainty : Roman Polanski's Macbeth / Semper die : marines incarnadine in Nina Menkes's The Bloody Child : an interior of violence / Shades of Shakespeare : colorblind casting and interracial couples in Macbeth in Manhattan, Grey's Anatomy, and Prison Macbeth / Three weyward sisters : African-American female poets conjure with Macbeth / "Black up again" : combating Macbeth in contemporary African-American plays / Black characters in search of an author : Black plays on Black performers of Shakespeare / Oba Macbeth : national transition as national traumission / Selected productions of Macbeth featuring non-traditional casting

Personal Subject
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Macbeth.
 
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616-Dramatic production.
 
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616-Stage history.

Subject Term
Theater -- Casting.
 
Race in literature.
 
African Americans in literature.

Added Author
Newstok, Scott L., 1973-
 
Thompson, Ayanna, 1972-


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