Shakespeare, Race, and Colonialism
by Loomba, Ania
Series: Oxford Shakespeare topics Published by : Oxford University Press (New York) Physical details: xii,192 Pages 13x20 cm | PB ISBN:0198711743.| Item type | Current location | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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General Stacks | Non-fiction | 822.33 L863S 2002 (Browse shelf) | Available | 16659 |
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.
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