Masquing Blackness in The Tempest - Shakespeare, Caliban, and Jonson

Combining early modern historiography with critical race and performance studies, Masquing Blackness offers a historically-contextualized examination of the mechanics of blackness in Shakespeare's The Tempest.

List of contents

Acknowledgements
Introduction: Early Modern Blackness in Context
Chapter 1: This Thing of Darkness: the Mechanics of Blackness and Colonialism in The Tempest
Chapter 2: And You the Blacker Devil: Jonson's Masque of Blackness and Othello
Chapter 3: Masquing Caliban: The Tempest and Masque of Blackness
Chapter 4: This Stain Upon Her: Cymbeline, The Winter's Tale, and The Tempest
Chapter 5: Now His Charms are all O'erthrown: The Tempest Post-Lockdown
Coda: The future of The Tempest
Bibliography
Appendices

About the author

Christina Gutierrez-Dennehy is an Assistant Professor of Theatre History at Western Washington University and a freelance professional director. She is the author of Like a King: Casting Shakespeare's Histories for Citizens and Subjects (2020) and the editor of Kingship, Madness and Masculinity on the Early Modern Stage (2022) as well as numerous articles and book chapters on race and representation in early modern theatre and performance. She is also the Co-Producing Artistic Director of the 7 Towers Theatre Company, based in Austin, Texas.

Product details

• Authors: Christina Gutierrez-Dennehy
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 17.11.2025
• EAN: 9781032794051
• ISBN: 978-1-032-79405-1
• No. of pages: 194
• Series: New Interdisciplinary Approaches to Early Modern Culture
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama > Drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; European History, Social & cultural history, LITERARY CRITICISM / Shakespeare, HISTORY / Modern / 16th Century, British & Irish history, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / General, Social and cultural history, Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700, History and Archaeology, Shakespeare Plays, Classic plays / drama