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Shakespeare's Contested Nations L. Monique Pittman

Shakespeare's Contested Nations By L. Monique Pittman

Shakespeare's Contested Nations by L. Monique Pittman


Summary

Shakespeare's Contested Nations examines the way in which performed Shakespearean history replicates exclusions, critiques narrative omissions, and affords opportunities to tell new stories about the nation as an ever-changing multicultural body.

Shakespeare's Contested Nations Summary

Shakespeare's Contested Nations: Race, Gender, and Multicultural Britain in Performances of the History Plays by L. Monique Pittman

Shakespeare, Theatre, Performance, History, adaptation, politics, postcolonial United Kingdom, race, gender, television, movie

About L. Monique Pittman

L. Monique Pittman is Professor of English and Director of the J. N. Andrews Honors Program at Andrews University, USA.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction: Representing the Nation's History

  1. Staging the Multiethnic Nation: Boyd and Hytner at the Millennial Threshold
  2. Shakespeare and the Cultural Olympiad: Gender, Race, and the British Nation in the BBC's Hollow Crown, Series One
  3. Hollow Refuge: The BBC's The Wars of the Roses and This Fortress Built by Nature
  4. The Disappearing Moor: Race, Authenticity, and the Nation's History in Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies
  5. The Trouble with History: Intersections of Nation, Race, and Gender in King Charles III
  6. Epilogue: The Case of Two Richards
  7. References

Index

Additional information

NPB9781032252483
9781032252483
1032252480
Shakespeare's Contested Nations: Race, Gender, and Multicultural Britain in Performances of the History Plays by L. Monique Pittman
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
2023-09-25
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