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1. - Critical Studies

from The Year’s Contribution To Shakespeare Studies

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 August 2022

By
Jane Kingsley-Smith
Edited by
Emma Smith
Emma Smith
Affiliation:
University of Oxford
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Summary

Following the pulling down of the statue of slave-trader, Edward Colston, in Bristol in the summer of 2020, in response to the Black Lives Matter movement, the historian David Olusoga observed, ‘the problem isn’t the statue; it’s the pedestal’. At a similar moment, the question of Shakespeare’s function as a potential symbol of racial oppression encouraged Ayanna Thompson to ask the question, ‘Is Shakespeare a statue?’ Some of the most valuable scholarship in Shakespeare produced this year asks directly or obliquely what kind of oppressive function Shakespeare-as-statue serves, and interrogates the kind of pedestals which have placed him there.

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Shakespeare Survey 75
Othello
 , pp. 361 - 374
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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Works Reviewed

Acker, Faith D., First Readers of Shakespeare’s Sonnets, 1590–1790 (New York and London, 2021)Google Scholar
Barnes, Todd Landon, Shakespearean Charity and the Perils of Redemptive Performance (Cambridge, 2020)Google Scholar
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Thompson, Ayanna ed., The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare and Race (Cambridge, 2021)Google Scholar

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