"'Whiteness as Property' in As You Like It"
https://www.worldshakesbib.org/entry/bbbl2501/
Author:
	Bozio, Andrew.
Type:
	Journal Article
Year:
	2022
Publication Information:
	Shakespeare Studies 50 (2022): 24–32.
Annotation:
	Analyzes As You Like It’s Celia’s intention to disguise herself by using a “a kind of umber [to] smirch my face,” as version of blackface which draws attention to racialized binary of light and dark. Argues Celia’s reference to "umber" "makes visible the very whiteness it aims to obscure, inviting us to consider how As You Like It functions as an example of one of Shakespeare's ‘other “race plays”’ in mapping the contours of such whiteness in early modernity."
Language:
	English
Keywords:
	race
Tags:
	As You Like It, Scholarship, Criticism, History of Criticism
WSB Update:
	Spring 2025
WSB Record Number:
	bbbl2501