Weyward Macbeth: Intersections of Race and Performance

Front Matter....Pages i-xvii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
What Is a “Weyward” Macbeth?....Pages 3-10
Weird Brothers: What Thomas Middleton’s The Witch Can Tell Us about Race, Sex, and Gender in Macbeth....Pages 11-20
Front Matter....Pages 21-21
“Blood Will Have Blood”: Violence, Slavery, and Macbeth in the Antebellum American Imagination....Pages 23-33
The Exorcism of Macbeth: Frederick Douglass’s Appropriation of Shakespeare....Pages 35-43
Ira Aldridge as Macbeth....Pages 45-54
Minstrel Show Macbeth....Pages 55-63
Reading Macbeth in Texts by and about African Americans, 1903–1944: Race and the Problematics of Allusive Identification....Pages 65-75
Front Matter....Pages 77-77
Before Welles: A 1935 Boston Production....Pages 79-82
Black Cast Conjures White Genius: Unraveling the Mystique of Orson Welles’s “Voodoo” Macbeth....Pages 83-90
After Welles: Re-do Voodoo Macbeths....Pages 91-100
The Vo-Du Macbeth!: Travels and Travails of a Choreo-Drama Inspired by the FTP Production....Pages 101-110
Front Matter....Pages 111-111
A Black Actor’s Guide to the Scottish Play, or, Why Macbeth Matters....Pages 113-120
Asian-American Theatre Reimagined: Shogun Macbeth in New York....Pages 121-125
The Tlingit Play: Macbeth and Native Americanism....Pages 127-131
A Post-Apocalyptic Macbeth: Teatro LA TEA’s Macbeth 2029....Pages 133-135
Multicultural, Multilingual Macbeth....Pages 137-141
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Reflections on Verdi, Macbeth, and Non-traditional Casting in Opera....Pages 145-149
Ellington’s Dark Lady....Pages 151-159
Hip-Hop Macbeths, “Digitized Blackness,” and the Millennial Minstrel: Illegal Culture Sharing in the Virtual Classroom....Pages 161-170
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Riddling Whiteness, Riddling Certainty: Roman Polanski’s Macbeth....Pages 173-181
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Semper Die: Marines Incarnadine in Nina Menkes’s The Bloody Child: An Interior of Violence....Pages 183-191
Shades of Shakespeare: Colorblind Casting and Interracial Couples in Macbeth in Manhattan, Grey’s Anatomy, and Prison Macbeth....Pages 193-202
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Three Weyward Sisters: African-American Female Poets Conjure with Macbeth....Pages 205-210
“Black up again”: Combating Macbeth in Contemporary African-American Plays....Pages 211-221
Black Characters in Search of an Author: Black Plays on Black Performers of Shakespeare....Pages 223-232
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ObaMacbeth: National Transition as National Traumission....Pages 235-237
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Selected Productions of Macbeth Featuring Non-traditional Casting....Pages 241-252
Back Matter....Pages 253-288