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TY  - JOUR
VL  - 75
IS  - 4
T2  - Renaissance Quarterly
SP  - 1127-1143
ID  - bbbm75
T1  - "The 2021 Josephine Waters Bennett Lecture: On Protean Acting: Race and Virtuosity"
AU  - Thompson, Ayanna
PY  - 2022
DA  - 2026
DO  - 10.1017/rqx.2022.328
KW  - race
LA  - English
AB  - Detects racial assumptions in characterization of white actors as “shape-shifting” and Black actors as “charismatic” and explains what this implies about supposed craft and labor of white actors as opposed to inherited or innate skills of Black actors. Traces ways of praising contemporary actors to “birth of racialized performances,” arguing that “the waves that rippled through the early modern London theaters continue to roll through twenty-first-century American ones.” Notes early modern praise of actor Richard Burbage referred to his shape-shifting ability, particularly his ability to embody his “chiefest part,” namely role of Othello, which required “cross-racial impersonation.”
ER  -