Loomba, Ania
Shakespeare, Race, and Colonialism - New York Oxford University Press 2002 - xii,192 Pages 13x20 cm PB - Oxford Shakespeare topics .
A great postcolonial reading of Shakespeare.
Not only was it very useful for my research on Antony and Cleopatra and The Tempest through a postcolonial lens, but also a very enjoyable thorough analysis of these plays, both in terms of historical context and postcolonial theory.
Include, Illustrations, Notes, Suggestions for Further Reading and Index.
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.
0198711743
Race in literature
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
Blacks in literature
Imperialism in literature
Literature and society
England
Race
Characters and characteristics
822.33
Shakespeare, Race, and Colonialism - New York Oxford University Press 2002 - xii,192 Pages 13x20 cm PB - Oxford Shakespeare topics .
A great postcolonial reading of Shakespeare.
Not only was it very useful for my research on Antony and Cleopatra and The Tempest through a postcolonial lens, but also a very enjoyable thorough analysis of these plays, both in terms of historical context and postcolonial theory.
Include, Illustrations, Notes, Suggestions for Further Reading and Index.
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.
0198711743
Race in literature
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
Blacks in literature
Imperialism in literature
Literature and society
England
Race
Characters and characteristics
822.33