Shakespeare, race, and colonialism

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Title:

Author:

Loomba, Ania.

ISBN:

9780198711759

9780198711742

Personal Author:

Loomba, Ania.

Publication Information:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2002.

Physical Description:

ix, 192 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.

Series:

Oxford Shakespeare topics

Series Title:

Oxford Shakespeare topics

Contents:

Introduction: Race and Colonialism in the Study of Shakespeare -- 1. The Vocabularies of Race -- 2. Religion, Colour, and Racial Difference -- 3. Wilderness and Civilization in Titus Andronicus -- 4. Othello and the Racial Question -- 5. The Imperial Romance of Antony and Cleopatra -- 6. Religion, Money, and Race in The Merchant of Venice -- Conclusion: Playing with Shakespeare.

Personal Subject:

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616-Views on race.

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616-Views on imperialism.

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616-Characters-Blacks.

Subject Term:

Literature and society -- England -- History -- 16th century.

Literature and society -- England -- History -- 17th century.

Imperialism in literature.

Blacks in literature.

Race in literature.

Electronic Access:

Table of contents http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy033/2002067195.html

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Summary

Did Shakespeare and his contemporaries think at all in terms of "race"? Examining the depiction of cultural, religious, and ethnic difference in Shakespeare's plays, Ania Loomba considers how seventeenth-century ideas differed from the later ideologies of "race" that emerged during colonialism, as well as from older ideas about barbarism, blackness, and religious difference. Accessible yet nuanced analysis of the plays explores how Shakespeare's ideas of race were shaped by beliefs about color, religion, nationality, class, money and gender.