Book contents
- Shakespeare Survey
- Shakespeare Survey
- Shakespeare Survey
- Copyright page
- Editor’s Note
- Contributors
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Remembering shakespeare’s Sonnets in Lucy Negro, Redux
- The Poetics of Antiquarian Accumulation in a Lover’s Complaint
- Different Samenesses
- Shakespeare’s Canvas
- ‘Persuasion by Similitude’: Finding Likeness in Shakespeare’s a Lover’s Complaint
- ‘Nothing-to-be-glossed-here’: Race in Shakespeare’s Sonnets
- Allegorical Desire, or, the Sufi ‘Phoenix and the Turtle’
- The Poetics of Shakespearian Erasure: Lyric Thinking with Bhanu Kapil and Preti Taneja
- Lucrece, Letters and the Moment of Lipsius
- Shakespeare’s Arabic Sonnets
- How to make a Formal Complaint: Sara Ahmed’s Complaint! and William Shakespeare’s a Lover’s Complaint
- They also Serve who only Stand and Write, or, how Milton Read Shakespeare’s Sonnets
- Writing Delight with Beauty’s Pen: Restoring Richard Barnfield’s Lost Credit
- Ocular Power and Female Fascinum in Shakespeare’s Venus And Adonis
- Pretty Creatures: A Lover’s Complaint, the Rape of Lucrece and Early Modern Women’s Complaint Poetry
- Lyric Voices and Cultural Encounters Across Time and Space: The Poetry of William Shakespeare and Faiz Ahmed Faiz (1911–1984)
- The thing itself or the image of that Horror: Fictions, Fascisms and We that are young
- Shakespeare’s Refugees
- Shakespeare as a Source of Dramaturgical Reconstruction
- Shakespeare, Race, Postcoloniality: The State of the Fields
- Asian Shakespeares online from Singapore
- Strange Shadows: Translating Shakespeare – The State of the Field
- Gender and Sexuality: The State of the Fields
- Shakespeare Performances in England, 2022–2023
- Productions Outside London, 2022–2023
- Professional Shakespeare Productions in the UK, January–December 2022
- The Year’s Contribution to Shakespeare Studies
- Abstracts of Articles in Shakespeare Survey 77
- Index
‘Nothing-to-be-glossed-here’: Race in Shakespeare’s Sonnets
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 November 2024
Book contents
- Shakespeare Survey
- Shakespeare Survey
- Shakespeare Survey
- Copyright page
- Editor’s Note
- Contributors
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Remembering shakespeare’s Sonnets in Lucy Negro, Redux
- The Poetics of Antiquarian Accumulation in a Lover’s Complaint
- Different Samenesses
- Shakespeare’s Canvas
- ‘Persuasion by Similitude’: Finding Likeness in Shakespeare’s a Lover’s Complaint
- ‘Nothing-to-be-glossed-here’: Race in Shakespeare’s Sonnets
- Allegorical Desire, or, the Sufi ‘Phoenix and the Turtle’
- The Poetics of Shakespearian Erasure: Lyric Thinking with Bhanu Kapil and Preti Taneja
- Lucrece, Letters and the Moment of Lipsius
- Shakespeare’s Arabic Sonnets
- How to make a Formal Complaint: Sara Ahmed’s Complaint! and William Shakespeare’s a Lover’s Complaint
- They also Serve who only Stand and Write, or, how Milton Read Shakespeare’s Sonnets
- Writing Delight with Beauty’s Pen: Restoring Richard Barnfield’s Lost Credit
- Ocular Power and Female Fascinum in Shakespeare’s Venus And Adonis
- Pretty Creatures: A Lover’s Complaint, the Rape of Lucrece and Early Modern Women’s Complaint Poetry
- Lyric Voices and Cultural Encounters Across Time and Space: The Poetry of William Shakespeare and Faiz Ahmed Faiz (1911–1984)
- The thing itself or the image of that Horror: Fictions, Fascisms and We that are young
- Shakespeare’s Refugees
- Shakespeare as a Source of Dramaturgical Reconstruction
- Shakespeare, Race, Postcoloniality: The State of the Fields
- Asian Shakespeares online from Singapore
- Strange Shadows: Translating Shakespeare – The State of the Field
- Gender and Sexuality: The State of the Fields
- Shakespeare Performances in England, 2022–2023
- Productions Outside London, 2022–2023
- Professional Shakespeare Productions in the UK, January–December 2022
- The Year’s Contribution to Shakespeare Studies
- Abstracts of Articles in Shakespeare Survey 77
- Index
Summary
This essay argues for the replacement of that nineteenth-century euphemism, ‘Dark Lady’, with a Black Mistress. The more we examine the language that creates this figure, the more the so-called Fair Youth and even the speaker of the Sonnets become less ‘fair’, thereby exposing the instability of Whiteness. This essay will also examine some of the reasons for our racial blindspots when it comes to the Sonnets.
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- Shakespeare Survey 77Shakespeare's Poetry, pp. 62 - 78Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2024