A collection of essays examining how the works of Shakespeare configure whiteness, intervening in common framings of Shakespeare’s “race” plays to demonstrate that all of Shakespeare’s plays are about race. The essays together perform a critical intervention by illuminating the ways in which whiteness remains an unstated normative fixture within the study of Shakespeare and beyond. The volume regards both the conceptualizations of whiteness within Shakespeare’s early modern works and the reception of Shakespeare among white readers in contemporary settings.