Shakespeare, race, and colonialism
by Ania Loomba
Literature and societyHistoryBlacks in literatureBlacksCriticism and interpretationRace in literatureCharactersImperialism in literature
Ania Loomba examines how Shakespeare's plays contribute to, and are themselves crafted from, contemporary ideas about social and cultural difference. This study places the racial question in Shakespeare's plays alongside the histories with which the plays converse.
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