Weyward Macbeth Intersections of Race and Performance
Weyward Macbeth, a volume of entirely new essays, provides innovative, interdisciplinary approaches to the various ways Shakespeare's 'Macbeth' has been adapted and appropriated within the context of American racial constructions. Comprehensiv
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Weyward MACBETH Intersections of Race and Performance
Edited by
Scott L. Newstok and Ayanna Thompson
Palgrave
macmillan
WEYWARD MACBETH
Copyright © Scott L. Newstok and Ayanna Thompson, 2010. Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 2010 978-0-230-61633-2 All rights reserved. First published in 2010 by PALGRAVE MACMILLAN® in the United States—a division of St. Martin’s Press LLC, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10010. Where this book is distributed in the UK, Europe and the rest of the world, this is by Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited, registered in England, company number 785998, of Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6XS. Palgrave Macmillan is the global academic imprint of the above companies and has companies and representatives throughout the world. Palgrave® and Macmillan® are registered trademarks in the United States, the United Kingdom, Europe and other countries.
ISBN 978-0-230-61642-4 DOI 10.1007/978-0-230-10216-3
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To our students
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You put me in Macbeth . . . And in everything but what’s about me. —Langston Hughes, “Note on Commercial Theatre” (1940)
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C on t e n t s
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List of Figures
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Series Editors’ Preface
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Acknowledgments
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Beginnings
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What Is a “Weyward” Macbeth? Ayanna Thompson
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Weird Brothers: What Thomas Middleton’s The Witch Can Tell Us about Race, Sex, and Gender in Macbeth Celia R. Daileader
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Early American Intersections
“Blood Will Have Blood”: Violence, Slavery, and Macbeth in the Antebellum American Imagination Heather S. Nathans
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The Exorcism of Macbeth: Frederick Douglass’s Appropriation of Shakespeare John C. Briggs
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Ira Aldridge as Macbeth Bernth Lindfors
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Minstrel Show Macbeth Joyce Green MacDonald
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Reading Macbeth in Texts by and about African Americans, 1903–1944: Race and
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