List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
List of Contributors
Introduction: ‘Assembling an Aristocracy of Skin’
Arthur L. Little, Jr. (University of California, USA)
Part I: Shakespeare’s White People
Chapter 1
‘Two loves I have of comfort and despair:’ The Circle of Whiteness in the SonnetsImtiaz Habib (Old Dominion University, USA)
Chapter 2
Staging the Blazon: Black and White and Red All Over
Evelyn Gajowski (University of Nevada, USA)
Chapter 3
Red Blood on White Saints: Affective Piety, Racial Violence, and Measure for MeasureDennis Austin Britton (University of New Hampshire, USA)
Chapter 4
Antonio’s White Penis: Category Trading in The Merchant of VeniceIan Smith (Lafayette College, USA)
Chapter 5
‘Envy Pale of Hew’: Whiteness and Division in ‘Fair Verona’
Kyle Grady (University of California, USA)
Chapter 6
“Shake thou to look on’t”: Shakespearean White Hands
David Sterling Brown (Binghamton University, SUNY, USA)
Chapter 7
‘Pales in the Flood’: Blood, Soil, and Whiteness in Shakespeare’s HenriadAndrew Clark Wagner (University of California, USA)
Chapter 8
Disrupting White Genealogies in CymbelineJoyce MacDonald (University of Kentucky, USA)
Chapter 9
White Freedom, White Property, and White Tears: Classical Racial Paradigms and the Construction of Whiteness in Julius CaesarKatherine Gillen (Texas A&M University, USA)
Chapter 10
Hamlet and the Education of the White Self
Eric De Barros (American University of Sharjah, UAE)
Chapter 11
‘The Blank of What He Was’: Dryden, Newton, and the Discipline of Shakespeare’s White People
Justin P. Shaw (Clark University, USA)
Part II: White People’s Shakespeare
Chapter 12
Can You Be White and Hear This?: The Racial Art of Listening in American Moor and DesdemonaKim Hall (Barnard College, USA)
Chapter 13
White Lies: In Conversation
Peter Sellars (UCLA, USA) and Ayanna Thompson (Arizona State University, USA)
Chapter 14
A Theatre Practice against the Unbearable Whiteness of Shakespeare: In Conversation
Keith Hamilton Cobb (actor, USA), Anchuli Felicia King (playwright and screenwriter, AUS), and Robin Alfriend Kello (University of California, USA)
Chapter 15
‘The soul of a great white poet’: Shakespearean Educations and the Civil Rights Era
Jason M. Demeter (Norfolk State University, USA)
Chapter 16
‘White Anger: Shakespeare’s my Meat’
Ruben Espinosa (Arizona State University, USA)
Chapter 17
‘I saw them in my visage’: Whiteness, Race Studies, and Early Modern Culture
Margo Hendricks (University of California, USA)
Chapter 18
The White Shakespearean and Daily Practice
Jean E. Howard (Columbia University, USA)
Chapter 19
No Exeunt: The Urgent Work of Critical Whiteness
Peter Erickson (Northwestern University, USA)
Index