Brown, David Sterling
Shakespeare's White Others
- ISBN 13:
- 9781009384162
- author:
- Brown, David Sterling
- format:
- Hardback
- publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
- language:
- English
- Publication Year:
- 2023
- Pages:
- 208
- Dimensions:
- 23.5 x 16 x 1.8 centimetres (0.5
- Genre:
- Nonfiction, Social Sciences, Race Relations,
- Condition:
- New
- Availability:
- Item usually sent within 5 working days
Description
Shakespeare's White Others by David Sterling Brown is a thought-provoking work that challenges traditional notions of whiteness in Shakespeare's plays. By examining characters like Richard III, Hamlet and Tamora, Brown argues that the 'white other' was a racialized category already in formation during the Elizabethan era, one to which Shakespeare himself contributed. This book offers a compelling deconstruction of whiteness in Shakespeare's works, highlighting how such classification perpetuates anti-Blackness and re-affirms white supremacy. Drawing on his own life experiences, including adolescence, Brown explores Shakespeare's role in identity politics and argues that even as theatrical texts functioned as engines of white identity formation, they expose the illusion of white racial solidarity. A valuable contribution to Shakespeare studies, critical whiteness studies and critical race studies, this book provides an authoritative dismantling of dramatized racial profiling.
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