Shakespeare / Skin

Ruben Espinosa is Associate Professor of English at Arizona State University, USA, and Associate Director of the Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies. He is the author of Shakespeare on the Shades of Racism (2021), Masculinity and Marian Efficacy in Shakespeare’s England (2011), and co-editor of Shakespeare and Immigration (2014).

• List of IllustrationsNotes on ContributorsSeries PrefaceAcknowledgementsIntroduction: Skin DeepRuben Espinosa (Arizona State University, USA)Chapter 1: Möbius Skin: Dermal History in the Early Modern Age Craig Koslofsky (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA) and Sachini Seneviratne (Postgraduate Institute of English of the Open University of Sri Lanka)Chapter 2: ‘My fleece of woolly hair’: Animals and Race in Shakespeare’s PlaysKaren Raber (University of Mississippi, USA and Shakespeare Association of America)Chapter 3: ‘You May Look Pale’: Whiteness and Love Melancholia in Love’s Labour’s LostDarryl Chalk (University of Southern Queensland, Australia)Chapter 4: Hermione’s WrinklesMario DiGangi (CUNY Graduate Center, USA)Chapter 5: Shakespeare and Postcolonial Theory: Incidental Shakespeares and Everyday life in the films of Satyajit RayAmrita Sen (University of Calcutta, India)Chapter 6: From Hatred to a Utopia: Making the Invisible Visible on the Skin in Miyagi Satoshi’s A Midsummer Night’s DreamBoram Choi (Korea University of Arts)Chapter 7: Shakespeare and la Herida Abierta: Twin Skin, Colonial Wounds, and the Cicatrix Poetics of Borderlands TheaterKatherine Gillen (Texas A&M University–San Antonio, USA)Chapter 8: The Skin of Our Voices: Mendoza or Shakespeare Retold by Los ColochosAlfredo Michel Modenessi (National University of Mexico)Chapter 9: Skin/PedagogyWendy Lennon (Shakespeare Institute, UK) Chapter 10: Artisans of the Skin: Recipe Studies and Race-Making in Shakespearean SkincraftsJennifer Park (University of Glasgow, UK)Chapter 11: Legible Bodies, Implicated Subjects, and the Call for Justice: Reflections on Titus AndronicusSandra Young (University of Cape Town, South Africa)Chapter 12: Caliban’s Skin, Racial Hinges, and Anti-Racist KinBernadette Andrea (University of California, Santa Barbara, USA)Chapter 13: Shakespeare/Skin: Indigenous Theoretical ResponseBethany Hughes, Tara Moses, Mary Kathryn Nagle and Madeline Sayet in DialogueBibliographyIndex