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: Introduction: What is a Black Shakespearean?; Ayanna Thompson - PART I: 19TH CENTURY AMERICA - 'Blood Will Have Blood': Performing Violence, Ritual, and Rebellion in the American Antislavery Movement; Heather Nathans - IraAldridge as Macbeth; Bernth Lindfors - Macbeth in the Speeches of Frederick Douglas and Abraham Lincoln; John Briggs - Minstrel Travesties of Macbeth; Joyce Green MacDonald - PART II: FEDERAL THEATRE PROJECT(S) - Before Welles: The 1935 Macbeth in Boston; Lisa Simmons - Primitivism in Orson Welles's 'Voodoo' Macbeth; Marguerite Rippy - Re-do Voo-Doo: The New Federal Theatre and the Classical Theatre of Harlem Macbeths; Scott Newstok - Re-making a 'Vo-Du Macbeth' as a 21st-Century Black Production; Lenwood Sloan - PART III: MUSIC - Macbett,Verdi, and the Racialization of Voice; Naomi Andre - Shirley Verrett and Verdi's Macbett: An Interview; Wallace Cheatham - 'A Little Ragtime in Her Soul': Ellington's Lady Mac; Douglas Lanier - Ghettoizing Macbeth; Ayanna Thompson, Scott Newstok, and Todd Landon Barnes - PART IV: FURTHER STAGES - Black Plays on Black Performers of Shakespeare; Peter Erickson - Blood, Madness, and Race: Where Macbeth Lurks in Contemporary African-American Dramas; Philip Kolin - Weyward Love in Macbeth; Arthur Little - Unsex Me Here: Macbeth and Race; Celia Daileader - PART V: FILM - Inter-racial Couples in Macbeth Spin-offs; Amy Scott-Douglass - Riddling Whiteness: Polanski's Witches and the Grotesque White Body; Francesca Royster - Fade to Black: The Obama-effect in Recent Macbeth films; Courtney Lehmann - Dred Scotland: Screening Macbeth as a Caribbean Republic; Harry J. Lennix - Epilogue: The Race to be First Lady Macbeth; Richard Burt - Appendix: An Annotated List of African-American Macbeth Productions; Ayanna Thompson and Scott Newstok
- ISBN: 978-0-230-61633-2
- Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 308
- Fecha Publicación: 12/02/2010
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés