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. INDICE: - PART I: BEGINNINGS - What is a 'Weyward' Macbeth?;Ayanna Thompson - Weird Brothers: What Thomas Middleton's The Witch Can Tell Us about Race,Sex, and Gender in Macbeth; Celia R. Daileader PART II: EARLY AMERICAN INTERSECTIONS - 'Blood will have blood': Violence, Slavery, and Macbeth in the Antebellum American Imagination; Heather S. Nathans - The Exorcism of Macbeth: Frederick Douglass's Appropriation of Shakespeare; John C. Briggs - Ira Aldridgeas Macbeth; Bernth Lindfors - Minstrel Show Macbeth; Joyce Green MacDonald -Reading Macbeth in Texts by and about African Americans, 1903b 1944: Race andthe Problematics of Allusive Identification; Nick Moschovakis - PART III: FEDERAL THEATRE PROJECT(S) - Before Welles: A 1935 Boston Production; Lisa N. Simmons - Black Cast Conjures White Genius: Unraveling the Mystique of Orson Welles's 'Voodoo' Macbeth; Marguerite Rippy - After Welles: Re-do Voodoo Macbeths; Scott L. Newstok - The Vo-Du Macbeth!: Travels and Travails of a Choreo-Drama Inspired by the FTP Production; Lenwood Sloan - PART IV: FURTHER STAGES -A Black Actor's Guide to the Scottish Play, Or, Why Macbeth Matters; Harry J.Lennix - Asian American Theatre Re-imagined: Shogun Macbeth in New York; Alexander C. Y. Huang - The Tlingit Play: Macbeth and Native Americanism; Anita Maynard-Losh - A Post-Apocalyptic Macbeth: Teatro LA TEA's Macbeth 2029; José A. Esquea - Multi-cultural, Multi-lingual Macbeth; William C. Carroll - PARTV: MUSIC - Reflections on Verdi, Macbeth, and Non-Traditional Casting in Opera; Wallace McClain Cheatham - Ellington's Dark Lady; Douglas Lanier - Hip-HopMacbeths, 'Digitized Blackness,' and the Millennial Minstrel: Illegal CultureSharing in the Virtual Classroom; Todd Landon Barnes - PART VI: SCREEN - Riddling Whiteness, Riddling Certainty: Roman Polanski's Macbeth; Francesca Royster - Semper Die: Marines Incarnadine in Nina Menkes's The Bloody Child: An Interior of Violence; Courtney Lehmann - Shades of Shakespeare: Colorblind Casting and Interracial Couples in Macbeth in Manhattan, Grey's Anatomy, and PrisonMacbeth; Amy Scott-Douglass - PART VII: SHAKESPEAREAN (A)VERSIONS - Three Weyward Sisters: African-American Female Poets Conjure with Macbeth; Charita Gainey-O'Toole and Elizabeth Alexander - 'Black up again': Combating Macbeth in Contemporary African-American Plays; Philip C. Kolin - Black Characters in Search of an Author: Black Plays on Black Performers of Shakespeare; Peter Erickson - Epilogue: ObaMacbeth: National Transition as National Traumission; Richard Burt - Appendix: Selected Productions of Macbeth Featuring Non-Traditional Casting; Brent Butgereit and Scott L. Newstok -
- ISBN: 978-0-230-61642-4
- Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 308
- Fecha Publicación: 29/01/2010
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés