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alternative and expansive perspective on Shakespeare
Author_Miles P. Grier
book about theatre history
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challenge to status quo views
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inequality through stage practice
interventions in normative understandings of canonical literature
promoting literacy
racism in drama and acting
Product details
- ISBN 9780813950365
- Weight: 272g
- Dimensions: 156 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 31 Dec 2023
- Publisher: University of Virginia Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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In Inkface, Miles P. Grier traces productions of Shakespeare's Othello from seventeenth-century London to the Metropolitan Opera in twenty-first-century New York. Grier shows how the painted stage Moor and the wife whom he theatrically stains became necessary types, reduced to objects of interpretation for a presumed white male audience. In an era of booming print production, popular urban theater, and increasing rates of literacy, the metaphor of Black skin as a readable, transferable ink became essential to a fraternity of literate white men who, by treating an elastic category of marked people as reading material, were able to assert authority over interpretation and, by extension, over the state, the family, and commerce. Inkface examines that fraternity’s reading of the world as well as the ways in which those excluded attempted to counteract it.
Miles P. Grier is Associate Professor of English at Queens College, City University of New York.
