Shakespeare, Race, and Colonialism (Oxford Shakespeare Topics) - Tapa dura

If you have not already seen this series [Oxford Shakespeare Topics], you must get to it now. It is reader-friendly and reliable. (Chronique)

... a very interesting treatment about self-definition, difference, and xenophobia. (Chronique)

Loomba's book is rich with a sense of the heterogeneous and multi-vocal present. This allows her to acknowledge the present-ness of Shakespeare for some, at the same time as pursuing the orthodox academic method of reading the plays through the lens of an insistently present concern, the theorization of race and colonialism. (Helen Moore, Times Literary Supplement)

A concise, balanced and well-judged introduction to the revolution in Shakespeare studies ... Loomba's book will be very helpful to students in explaining many key terms ... Many of Loomba's judgments will be as useful to teachers as students. (Around The Globe)

Did Shakespeare and his contemporaries think at all in terms of "race"? Examining the depiction of cultural, religious, and ethnic difference in Shakespeare's plays, Ania Loomba considers how 17th-century ideas differed from the later ideologies of "race" that emerged during colonialism, as well as from older ideas about barbarism, blackness, and religious difference. An accessible yet nuanced analysis of the plays explores how Shakespeare's ideas of race were shaped by beliefs about colour, religion, nationality, class, money and gender.