Sayet, Madeline. "Indigenous Shakespeares." Throughlines. www.throughlines.org/suite-content/indigenous-shakespeares. [Date accessed].
Indigenous Shakespeares
Selected readings to contextualize Shakespeare and indigeneity in your classroom.
Blackhawk, Ned. The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2023.
Darby, Jaye T., Courtney Elkin Mohler, and Christy Stanlake. Critical Companion to Native American and First Nations Theatre and Performance: Indigenous Spaces. London: Methuen, 2020.
Grier, Miles P. "Staging the Cherokee Othello: An Imperial Economy of Indian Watching." The William and Mary Quarterly 73, no. 1 (2016): 73–106.
Hughes, Bethany. "The Indispensable Indian: Edwin Forrest, Pushmataha, and Metamora," Theatre Survey 59, no. 1 (January 2018): 23-44.
Hughes, Bethany. Redface: Race, Performance, and Indigeneity. New York: NYU Press, 2024.
Nesteroff, Kliph. We Had a Little Real Estate Problem: The Unheralded Story of Native Americans & Comedy. Simon & Schuster, 2021.
HowlRound articles
Hayton, Allan. "Healing Stories from Naa Kahidi Theatre.” HowlRound Theatre Commons. 21 August 2018.
Hubbard, Robert. “The Ills We Do, Their Ills Instruct us So’' Indigenous Futurism and the South Dakota Shakespeare Festival." HowlRound Theatre Commons. 25 July 2022.
Hughes, Bethany. “Off the Rails: Look at Shakespeare, See a Native Play.” HowlRound Theatre Commons. 22 January 2018.
Nagle, Mary Kathryn. “Native Voices on the American Stage: A Constitutional Crisis.” HowlRound Theatre Commons. 22 February 2015.
Starbard, Vera. “Alaska Native Theatre Comes of Age.” HowlRound Theatre Commons. 18 August 2018.
Sayet, Madeline. “Interrogating the Shakespeare System.” HowlRound Theatre Commons. 21 August 2020.
Plays and creative works that could be read with or instead of Shakespeare
Pigeon by Dillon Chitto
Pueblo Revolt by Dillon Chitto
Wings of a Night Sky/Wings of Morning Light by Joy Harjo
Hamlet: El Principe de Denmark by Tara Moses
Othello by Tara Moses
Death of a Chief by Yvette Nolan
Off the Rails by Randy Reinholz
Whale Song by Cathy Tagnak Rexford
Where We Belong by Madeline Sayet
Devilfish by Vera Starbard
Coming Soon: Methuen Anthology of Native American Drama (Estimated 2026).
Further learning
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Recommended
Critical theories and methods
This class investigates and gauges the value of critical theories and methods focused on race, racism, and racial justice. The aim of this course is to engage meaningfully with scholars, cultural productions, and criticism that draw on critical race studies within their artistic and scholarly work.
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