Overview: Conducts theoretically-informed readings of five 20th/21st Century Shakespearean adaptations that focus on black womanhood.Views the texts studied as attempting their own voicing of a suppressed past,As readers head into the second fifty years of the modern critical study of blackness and black characters in Renaissance drama, it has become a critical commonplace to note black female characters’ almost complete absence from Shakespeare’s plays. Despite this physical absence, however, they still play central symbolic roles in articulating definitions of love, beauty, chastity, feminin
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