Theatre and Race

Harvey Young is Associate Professor of Theatre and Performance Studies at Northwestern University, USA. He is the author of Embodying Black Experience, editor of The Cambridge Companion to African American Theatre and co-editor of Performance in the Borderlands and Reimagining A Raisin in the Sun: Four New Plays.

• Series Editors' Preface1. Race as Theatre2. Racializing the Other in the Classical Era3. Cultural Anxieties in the Elizabethan Period4. Blackface5. Other Faces6. Colorblind and Color Conscious Casting7. Conclusion: Post-race TheatreFurtherReadingIndexAcknowledgements.

"An enjoyable book that is easy to follow and offers an interesting, jargon-free, account of a wide range of complex issues." - Lynette Goddard, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK