Masquing Blackness in The Tempest

Combining early modern historiography with critical race and performance studies, Masquing Blackness offers a historically-contextualized examination of the mechanics of blackness in Shakespeare's The Tempest.

Christina Gutierrez-Dennehy is an Assistant Professor of Theatre History at Western Washington University and a freelance professional director. She is the author of Like a King: Casting Shakespeare's Histories for Citizens and Subjects (2020) and the editor of Kingship, Madness and Masculinity on the Early Modern Stage (2022), as well as numerous articles and book chapters on race and representation in early modern theatre and performance. She is also the Co-Producing Artistic Director of the 7 Towers Theatre Company, based in Austin, Texas.

Acknowledgements Introduction: Early Modern Blackness in Context Chapter 1: This Thing of Darkness: the Mechanics of Blackness and Colonialism in The Tempest Chapter 2: And You the Blacker Devil: Jonson's Masque of Blackness and Othello Chapter 3: Masquing Caliban: The Tempest and Masque of Blackness Chapter 4: This Stain Upon Her: Cymbeline, The Winter's Tale, and The Tempest Chapter 5: Now His Charms are all O'erthrown: The Tempest Post-Lockdown Coda: The future of The Tempest Bibliography Appendices