Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-224) and index.
Contents
Democratic vistas -- Nativism, nationalism, and the common man in American constructions of Shakespeare -- Shakespeare at Hull House: Jane Addams's "A Modern Lear" and the 1894 Pullman Strike -- Shakespeare, 1916: Caliban by the Yellow Sands and the new dramas of democracy -- Prospero's books -- Prospero in Africa: The Tempest as colonialist text and pretext -- After The Tempest: Shakespeare, postcoloniality, and Michelle Cliff's new, New World Miranda -- The Othello complex -- Enslaving the Moor: Othello, Oroonoko, and the recuperation of intractability -- "Like Othello": Tayeb Salih's Season of Migration and postcolonial self-fashioning -- Conclusion--Decolonizing Shakespeare: My Son's Story, Children of Light, and late imperial romance.