Weyward Macbeth : intersections of race and performance /
Newstok, Scott L.,1973-
Thompson, Ayanna,1972-
New York ; Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan,
2010.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [253]-271) and index.
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 -- "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 -- 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 Macbeth / Scott L. Newstok -- The vo-du Macbeth!: travels and travails of a choreo-drama inspired by the FTP production / Lenwood Sloan -- A black actor's guide to the Scottish play, or, why Macbeth matters / Harry J. Lennix -- Asian-American theatre reimagined: 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 / José A. Esquea -- Multicultural, multilingual Macbeth / William C. Carroll -- 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 -- 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 -- 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 -- Oba Macbeth: national transition as national traumission / Richard Burt -- Selected productions of Macbeth featuring non-traditional casting / Brent Butgereit and Scott L. Newstok..
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
Theater
Race in literature.
African Americans in literature.