• Conducts theoretically-informed readings of five 20th/21st Century Shakespearean adaptations that focus on black womanhood - Views the texts studied as attempting their own voicing of a suppressed past, and using that recovered past in order to mount a present and possibly even a future informed by black women's social, political, and emotional agency - Valuable both to contemporary students who want to know more about treatments of Shakespeare in the 20th and 21st centuries, and to those working on race in early modern drama

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Joyce Green MacDonald is Associate Professor of English at the University of Kentucky, USA, where she teaches courses on Shakespeare and Renaissance drama. She is the author of Women and Race in Early Modern Texts (2002) and has published widely on Renaissance racial formations, Shakespearean adaptation, and performance.

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1. Introduction: A cemetery inhabited by highly vocal ghosts.- 2. Chapter One: Rereading Othello in Gayl Jones' Mosquito: Claiming Wisdom.- 3. Chapter Two: Remembering Race in Romeo and Juliet and Mississippi Masala: Uncrossed Lovers.- 4. Chapter Three: Bodies, Race, and Performance in Antony and Cleopatra and Derek Walcott's A Branch of the Blue Nile: Memory's Signatures.- 5. Chapter Four: Women's Memories in Othello and Harlem Duet: Echoes of Harlem.- 6. Chapter Five: Re-racing Romance from The Taming of the Shrew to Deliver Us from Eva: 'The Right Foundation'.- 7. Afterword: Adapting Shakespeare, Forgetting Race in King Charles III: Future History?