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How Should You Perform and Watch Othello and Hairspray in a Country Where You Could Never Hire Black Actors? Shakespeare and Casting in Japan
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-12-30)
This paper discusses how Japanese theatres have handled race in a country where hiring black actors to perform Shakespeare’s plays is not an option. In English-speaking regions, such as the United States and the United ...
Brown, Never Black: Othello on the Nazi Stage
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-12-30)
This paper examines the ways in which Othello was represented on the Nazi stage. Included in the theatre analyses are Othello productions in Frankfurt in 1935, in Berlin in 1939 and 1944, and in pre-occupation Vienna in ...