{"product_id":"shakespeare-skin","title":"Shakespeare \/ Skin","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis volume offers a comprehensive array of readings of ‘skin’ in Shakespeare’s works, a term that embraces the human and animal, noun and verb.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eShakespeare \/ Skin \u003c\/i\u003edeparts from previous studies as it deliberately and often explicitly engages with issues of social and racial justice. Each of the chapters interrogates and centres ‘skin’ in relation to areas of expertise that include performance studies, aesthetics, animal studies, religious studies, queer theory, Indigenous studies, history, food studies, border studies, postcolonial studies, Black feminism, disease studies and pedagogy. By considering contemporary understandings of skin, this volume examines how the literature of the early modern past creates paths to constructing racial hierarchies.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith contributors from the USA, UK, South Africa, India, Sri Lanka, Singapore and Australia, chapters are informed by an array of histories, shedding light on how skin was understood in Shakespeare’s time and at key moments during the past 400 years in different media and cultures. Chapters include considerations of plays such as \u003ci\u003eTitus Andronicus, The Tempest \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e A Midsummer Night’s Dream, \u003c\/i\u003eand work by Borderlands Theater, \u003ci\u003eLos Colochos \u003c\/i\u003eand Satyajit Ray, among many others.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor researchers and instructors, this book will help to shape teaching and inform research through its modelling of antiracist critical practice. Collectively, the chapters in this collection allow us to consider how sustained attention to skin via cross-historical and innovative approaches can reveal to us the various uses of Shakespeare that shed light on the fraught nature of our interrelatedness. They set a path for readers to consider how much skin they have in the game when it comes to challenging structures of racism.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54250579460440,"sku":"9781350261600","price":173.6,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781350261600_be9c742e-d5a4-4c6a-9370-6ee978fd24d6.jpg?v=1777050947","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/shakespeare-skin","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}