The theatre has always been a place where conceptions of race and racism have been staged, shared and perpetuated. Harvey Young introduces key ideas about race, before tracing its relationship with theatre and performance - from Ancient Athens to the present day.

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Harvey Young is Dean of the College of Fine Arts and Professor of English and Theatre at Boston University, USA. He has been published in academic journals, newspapers and magazines, and is the author of ten books.

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Series Editors' Preface.- 1. Race as Theatre.- 2. Racializing the Other in.- the Classical Era.- 3. Cultural Anxieties in the Elizabethan Period.- 4. Blackface.- 5. Other Faces.- 6. Colorblind and Color Conscious Casting.- 7. Conclusion: Post-race Theatre.- Further.- Reading.- Index.- Acknowledgements.