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TY  - JOUR
VL  - 20
IS  - 4
T2  - Shakespeare (British Shakespeare Association)
SP  - 596-613
ID  - bbbo318
T1  - "Inessential Anti-Blackness: Re-Imagining a Post-Lockdown Tempest"
AU  - Gutierrez-Dennehy, Christina
PY  - 2024
DA  - 2026
DO  - 10.1080/17450918.2024.2340662
LA  - English
AB  - Interrogates how Tempest "came to be seen as an ‘essential’ Shakespearean text in a post-[covid]-lockdown America, ultimately concluding that what is essential about The Tempest is not found within Shakespeare’s text, but in the social demand that producing the play places on theatres who wish to reframe the play as anti-racist." Suggests that post-covid popularity of Tempest performances in America was attempt to respond to Black Lives Matter. Advocates for American theatres to "replace The Tempest with works that celebrate blackness, and Black joy in particular." English summary, 596.
ER  -