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Smith, Ian. Black Shakespeare: Reading and Misreading Race. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022.
Explores narratological and historiographical patterns of resistance to studying the works of Shakespeare with reference to race. The book parses ways in which early modern English audiences worked with preexisting racial concepts in order to make sense of the details in Shakespeare's work. The book engages discussions in the study of Shakespeare, Blackness, and performance.
