Tag: Ayanna Thompson

  • Passing Strange: Shakespeare, Race, and Contemporary America by Ayanna Thompson (Klett review) Theatre Journal Volume 65, Number 2, May 2013 pages 303-304 DOI: 10.1353/tj.2013.0043 Elizabeth Klett, Assistant Professor of Literature University of Houston, Clear Lake Ayanna Thompson’s exciting book analyzes a wide variety of sites for performing, interrogating, and dismantling Shakespeare and race in contemporary…

  • Passing Strange: Shakespeare, Race, and Contemporary America (review) Shakespeare Quarterly Volume 63, Number 2 (Summer 2012) pages 244-246 DOI: 10.1353/shq.2012.0017 Virginia Mason Vaughan, Professor of English Clark University, Worcester, Massachusetts If you teach Shakespeare’s plays at an American university, college, or secondary school (as I do), and if you’ve ever felt a disconnect between what…

  • Passing Strange: Shakespeare, Race, and Contemporary America Oxford University Press April 2011 240 pages Hardback ISBN13: 9780195385854; ISBN10: 0195385853 Ayanna Thompson, Professor of English Arizona State University Notions, constructions, and performances of race continue to define the contemporary American experience, including America’s relationship to Shakespeare. In Passing Strange, Ayanna Thompson explores the myriad ways U.S.…