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Hendricks, Margo. "‘Obscured by Dreams’: Race, Empire, and Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream." Shakespeare Quarterly 47, no. 1 (1996): 37–60.
Interrogates the “Indian Boy” in Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. The article argues that Shakespeare’s comedy continues the racial discourse of travel narratives by representing India as an exotic territory to be conquered and occupied. Yet the text constitutes race as an ideological fissure creating a dichotomy between race as genealogy and race as ethnicity. The article addresses issues of mestizaje and representations of the other suitable to imperial projects.
