Shakespeare's White Others

Examining the racially white 'others' whom Shakespeare creates in characters like Richard III, Hamlet, and Tamora-figures who are never quite 'white enough'-this bold and compelling work emphasizes how such classification perpetuates anti-Blackness and reaffirms white supremacy. David Sterling Brown offers nothing less here than a wholesale deconstruction of whiteness in Shakespeare's plays, arguing that the 'white other' was a racialized category already in formation during the Elizabethan...