"Inessential Anti-Blackness: Re-Imagining a Post-Lockdown Tempest"
https://www.worldshakesbib.org/entry/bbbo318/
Author:
	Gutierrez-Dennehy, Christina.
Type:
	Journal Article
Year:
	2024
Publication Information:
	Shakespeare (British Shakespeare Association) 20, no. 4 (2024): 596–613.
DOI:
	10.1080/17450918.2024.2340662
Annotation:
	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.
Language:
	English
Tags:
	Scholarship, Criticism, History of Criticism, Stage and Theater History, The Tempest
WSB Update:
	Summer 2025
WSB Record Number:
	bbbo318