Weyward Macbeth: Intersections of Race and Performance

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Scott Newstok is the author of How to Think like Shakespeare and Quoting Death in Early Modern England; editor of Paradise Lost: A Primer; and co-editor of Weyward Macbeth a collection of essays exploring the intersection of race and performance.  Ayanna Thompson is director of the Arizona Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies (ACMRS) at Arizona State University. She is the author of Shakespeare in the Theatre: Peter Sellars (2018) Teaching Shakespeare with Purpose: A Student-Centred Approach (2016) Passing Strange: Shakespeare Race and Contemporary America (2011) and Performing Race and Torture on the Early Modern Stage (2008). She wrote the new introduction for the revised Arden Othello (2016) and is the editor of Colorblind Shakespeare: New Perspectives on Race and Performance (2006).AYANNA THOMPSON Arizona State University USA HEATHER NATHANS University of Maryland USA BERNTH LINDFORS University of Texas Austin USA JOHN BRIGGS University of California Riverside USA JOYCE GREEN MACDONALD University of Kentucky USA LISA SIMMONS Independent Filmmaker MARGUERITE RIPPY Marymount University USA SCOTT NEWSTOK Rhodes College USA LENWOOD SLOAN Director of Cultural and Heritage Tourism Program Pennsylvania USA WALLACE CHEATHAM Composer and Musicologist DOUGLAS LANIER University of New Hampshire USA TODD LANDON BARNES University of California Irvine USA PETER ERICKSON Williams College USA PHILIP KOLIN University of Southern Mississippi USA CELIA DAILEADER Florida State University USA AMY SCOTT-DOUGLASS Denison University USA FRANCESCA ROYSTER DePaul University USA COURTNEY LEHMANN University of the Pacific USA HARRY J. LENNIX Actor RICHARD BURT University of Florida USA NICK MOSCHOVAKIS Reed College USA ALEXANDER C. Y. HUANG Penn State University USA ANITA MAYNARD-LOSH Director JOSÉ A. ESQUEA Director WILLIAM C. CARROLL Boston University CHARITA GAINEY-O'TOOLE doctoral student Harvard USA ELIZABETH ALEXANDER Yale USA BRENT BUTGEREIT Rhodes College USA