Shakespeare's Contested Nations: Race, Gender, and Multicultural Britain in Performances of the History Plays

by L. Monique Pittman

Shakespeare's Contested Nations argues that performances of Shakespearean history at British institutional venues between 2000 and 2016 manifest a post-imperial nostalgia that fails to tell the nation's story in ways that account for the agential impact of women and people of color, thus foreclosing promising opportunities to re-examine the nation's multicultural past, present, and future in more intentional, self-critical, and truly progressive...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1032252480
• ISBN13: 9781032252483
• Release Date: September 2023
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.82 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"