Weyward Macbeth : intersections of race and performance
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Weyward Macbeth : intersections of race and performance
（Signs of race / general editors, Philip D. Beidler and Gary Taylor）
Palgrave Macmillan, 2010
- : [hardcover]
Available at 4 libraries
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [253]-271) and indexes
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Weyward Macbeth, a volume of entirely new essays, provides innovative, interdisciplinary approaches to the various ways Shakespeare's 'Macbeth' has been adapted and appropriated within the context of American racial constructions. Comprehensive in its scope, this collection addresses the enduringly fraught history of 'Macbeth' in the United States, from its appearance as the first Shakespearean play documented in the American colonies to a proposed Hollywood film version with a black diasporic cast. Over two dozen contributions explore 'Macbeth's' haunting presence in American drama, poetry, film, music, history, politics, acting, and directing - all through the intersections of race and performance.
Table of Contents
- PART I: BEGINNINGS What is a 'Weyward' Macbeth?
- Ayanna Thompson Weird Brothers: What Thomas Middleton's The Witch Can Tell Us about Race, Sex, and Gender in Macbeth
- Celia R. Daileader PART II: EARLY AMERICAN INTERSECTIONS 'Blood will have blood': Violence, Slavery, and Macbeth in the Antebellum American Imagination
- Heather S. Nathans The Exorcism of Macbeth: Frederick Douglass's Appropriation of Shakespeare
- John C. Briggs Ira Aldridge as Macbeth
- Bernth Lindfors Minstrel Show Macbeth
- Joyce Green MacDonald Reading Macbeth in Texts by and about African Americans, 1903 1944: Race and the Problematics of Allusive Identification
- Nick Moschovakis PART III: FEDERAL THEATRE PROJECT(S) Before Welles: A 1935 Boston Production
- Lisa N. Simmons Black Cast Conjures White Genius: Unraveling the Mystique of Orson Welles's 'Voodoo' Macbeth
- Marguerite Rippy After Welles: Re-do Voodoo Macbeths
- Scott L. Newstok The Vo-Du Macbeth!: Travels and Travails of a Choreo-Drama Inspired by the FTP Production
- Lenwood Sloan PART IV: FURTHER STAGES A Black Actor's Guide to the Scottish Play, Or, Why Macbeth Matters
- Harry J. Lennix Asian American Theatre Re-imagined: Shogun Macbeth in New York
- Alexander C. Y. Huang The Tlingit Play: Macbeth and Native Americanism
- Anita Maynard-Losh A Post-Apocalyptic Macbeth: Teatro LA TEA's Macbeth 2029
- Jose A. Esquea Multi-cultural, Multi-lingual Macbeth
- William C. Carroll PART V: MUSIC Reflections on Verdi, Macbeth, and Non-Traditional Casting in Opera
- Wallace McClain Cheatham Ellington's Dark Lady
- Douglas Lanier Hip-Hop Macbeths, 'Digitized Blackness,' and the Millennial Minstrel: Illegal Culture Sharing in the Virtual Classroom
- Todd Landon Barnes PART VI: SCREEN Riddling Whiteness, Riddling Certainty: Roman Polanski's Macbeth
- Francesca Royster Semper Die: Marines Incarnadine in Nina Menkes's The Bloody Child: An Interior of Violence
- Courtney Lehmann Shades of Shakespeare: Colorblind Casting and Interracial Couples in Macbeth in Manhattan, Grey's Anatomy, and Prison Macbeth
- Amy Scott-Douglass PART VII: SHAKESPEAREAN (A)VERSIONS Three Weyward Sisters: African-American Female Poets Conjure with Macbeth
- Charita Gainey-O'Toole and Elizabeth Alexander 'Black up again': Combating Macbeth in Contemporary African-American Plays
- Philip C. Kolin Black Characters in Search of an Author: Black Plays on Black Performers of Shakespeare
- Peter Erickson Epilogue: ObaMacbeth: National Transition as National Traumission
- Richard Burt Appendix: Selected Productions of Macbeth Featuring Non-Traditional Casting
- Brent Butgereit and Scott L. Newstok
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