Weyward Macbeth: Intersections of Race and Performance (Signs of Race)

The Accomplished Contributors Add Significant Understanding To The Staging And Teaching Of Macbeth And Reflect On The Rich History Of African Americans Struggling To Find A Voice On The American Stage. What Is A Weyward Macbeth? / Ayanna Thompson -- Weird Brothers: What Thomas Middleton's The Witch Can Tell Us About Race, Sex And Gender In Macbeth / Celia R. Daileader -- Blood Will Have Blood: Violence, Slavery, And Macbeth In The Antebellum American Imagination / Heather S. Nathans -- The Exorcism Of Macbeth: Frederick Douglass's Appropriation Of Shakespeare / John C. Briggs -- Ira Aldridge As Macbeth / Bernth Lindfors -- Minstrel Show Macbeth / Joyce Green Macdonald -- Reading Macbeth In Texts By And About African Americans, 1903-1944: Race And The Problematics Of Allusive Identification / Nick Moschovakis -- Before Welles: A 1935 Boston Production / Lisa N. Simmons -- Black Cast Conjures White Genius: Unraveling The Mystique Of Orson Welles's Voodoo Macbeth / Marguerite Rippy -- After Welles: Re -do Voodoo Macbeth / Scott L. Newstok -- The Vo-du Macbeth!: Travels And Travails Of A Choreo-drama Inspired By The Ftp Production / Lenwood Sloan -- A Black Actor's Guide To The Scottish Play, Or, Why Macbeth Matters / Harry J. Lennix -- Asian-american Theatre Reimagined: Shogun Macbeth In New York / Alexander C. Y. Huang -- The Tlingit Play: Macbeth And Native Americanism / Anita Maynard-losh -- A Post-apocalyptic Macbeth: Teatro La Tea's Macbeth 2029 / José A. Esquea -- Multicultural, Multilingual Macbeth / William C. Carroll -- Reflections On Verdi, Macbeth, And Non-traditional Casting In Opera / Wallace Mcclain Cheatham -- Ellington's Dark Lady / Douglas Lanier -- Hip-hop Macbeths, Digitized Blackness, And The Millennial Minstrel: Illegal Culture Sharing In The Virtual Classroom / Todd Landon Barnes -- Riddling Whiteness, Riddling Certainty: Roman Polanski's Macbeth / Francesca Royster -- Semper Die: Marines Incarnadine In Nina Menkes's The Bloody Child: An Interior Of Violence / Courtney Lehmann -- Shades Of Shakespeare: Colorblind Casting And Interracial Couples In Macbeth In Manhattan, Grey's Anatomy, And Prison Macbeth / Amy Scott-douglass -- Three Weyward Sisters: African-american Female Poets Conjure With Macbeth / Charita Gainey-o'toole And Elizabeth Alexander -- Black Up Again: Combating Macbeth In Contemporary African-american Plays / Philip C. Kolin -- Black Characters In Search Of An Author: Black Plays On Black Performers Of Shakespeare / Peter Erickson -- Oba Macbeth: National Transition As National Traumission / Richard Burt -- Selected Productions Of Macbeth Featuring Non-traditional Casting / Brent Butgereit And Scott L. Newstok.. Edited By Scott L. Newstok, Ayanna Thompson. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [253]-271) And Indexes.