Weyward Macbeth
Subtitle: intersections of race and performance
By: edited by Scott L. Newstok and Ayanna Thompson
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: Signs of race
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780230616332; 9780230616424
Subjects: African Americans in literature; Stage history; Casting; Theater; Dramatic production; Race in literature
Description: The accomplished contributors add significant understanding to the staging and teaching of Macbeth and reflect on the rich history of African Americans struggling to find a voice on the American stage.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [253]-271) and index.
Table of contents: title: What is a "weyward" Macbeth? / Ayanna Thompson; title: Weird brothers: what Thomas Middleton's The witch can tell us about race, sex and gender in Macbeth / Celia R. Daileader; title: "Blood will have blood": violence, slavery, and Macbeth in the antebellum American imagination / Heather S. Nathans; title: The exorcism of Macbeth: Frederick Douglass's appropriation of Shakespeare / John C. Briggs; title: Ira Aldridge as Macbeth / Bernth Lindfors; title: Minstrel show Macbeth / Joyce Green MacDonald; title: Reading Macbeth in texts by and about African Americans, 1903-1944: race and the problematics of allusive identification / Nick Moschovakis; title: Before Welles: a 1935 Boston production / Lisa N. Simmons; title: Black cast conjures white genius: unraveling the mystique of Orson Welles's  "Voodoo" Macbeth / Marguerite Rippy; title: After Welles: re -do Voodoo Macbeth / Scott L. Newstok; title: The vo-du Macbeth!: travels and travails of a choreo-drama inspired by the FTP production / Lenwood Sloan; title: A black actor's guide to the Scottish play, or, why Macbeth matters / Harry J. Lennix; title: Asian-American theatre reimagined: Shogun Macbeth in New York / Alexander C. Y. Huang; title: The Tlingit play: Macbeth and Native Americanism / Anita Maynard-Losh; title: A post-apocalyptic Macbeth: teatro LA TEA's Macbeth 2029 / José A. Esquea; title: Multicultural, multilingual Macbeth / William C. Carroll; title: Reflections on Verdi, Macbeth, and non-traditional casting in opera / Wallace McClain Cheatham; title: Ellington's Dark lady / Douglas Lanier; title: Hip-hop Macbeths, "digitized blackness," and the millennial minstrel: illegal culture sharing in the virtual classroom / Todd Landon Barnes; title: Riddling whiteness, riddling certainty: Roman Polanski's Macbeth / Francesca Royster; title: Semper die: marines incarnadine in Nina Menkes's The Bloody Child: an interior of violence / Courtney Lehmann; title: Shades of Shakespeare: colorblind casting and interracial couples in Macbeth in Manhattan, Grey's Anatomy, and Prison Macbeth / Amy Scott-Douglass; title: Three weyward sisters: African-American female poets conjure with Macbeth / Charita Gainey-O'Toole and Elizabeth Alexander; title: "Black up again": combating Macbeth in contemporary African-American plays / Philip C. Kolin; title: Black characters in search of an author: Black plays on Black performers of Shakespeare / Peter Erickson; title: Oba Macbeth: national transition as national traumission / Richard Burt; title: Selected productions of Macbeth featuring non-traditional casting / Brent Butgereit and Scott L. Newstok..