Provider: World Shakespeare Bibliography https://www.worldshakesbib.org Database: WSB Content: text/plain; charset="utf-8" TY - BOOK PB - Cambridge University Press SE - viii + 218 pp. CY - Cambridge ID - aaam299 T1 - Black Shakespeare: Reading and Misreading Race AU - Smith, Ian PY - 2022 DA - 2026 LA - English AB - Investigates influence of "systemic whiteness" on interpretation of Shakespeare's plays. Examines how race has been "elided, misconstrued, or otherwise rendered invisible [in Shakespeare] by readers who have ignored the presence of race in early modern England." Considers race in Othello, Merchant of Venice, and Hamlet. ER -