CRITICISM

Callaghan, Dympna. “What's at Stake in Representing Race?” Shakespeare Studies XXVI (1998): 21–26.

Examines the representation of non-white characters in modern productions of Shakespeare's plays.

Erickson, Peter. “The Moment of Race in Renaissance Studies.” Shakespeare Studies XXVI (1998): 27-36.

Considers the pitfalls of scholarly investigation into race in Renaissance studies. Erickson uses Othelloamong his examples, arguing that while “the drama begins by disrupting and temporarily suspending racially based stereotypes, it ends by reimposing them.”

Hamlin, William M. “Men of Inde: Renaissance Ethnography and The Tempest.” Shakespeare Studies XXII (1994): 15-44.

Views The Tempest in the contexts of Renaissance colonial discourse, regarding Caliban as a culturally distinct and ambivalent figure.

López, Judith A. “‘Black and White and “Read” All Over.’” Shakespeare Studies XXVI (1998): 49-58.

Disputes the critical tendency to reduce racial and religious conflict to binary opposition when evaluating such texts as The Merchant of Venice.

Smith, Ian. “Barbarian Errors: Performing Race in Early Modern England.” Shakespeare Quarterly 49, No. 2 (Summer 1998): 168-86.

Explores the racializing function of language—which seeks to define through speech the cultural outsider—in relation to Shakespeare's Othello.