Arthur L. Little, Jr. is an associate professor of English at UCLA, USA. He is the author of Shakespeare Jungle Fever: Re-Visions of Race, Rape, and Sacrifice (2000) and Shakespeare and Race Theory (forthcoming, The Arden Shakespeare).

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgements List of ContributorsIntroduction: ‘Assembling an Aristocracy of Skin’Arthur L. Little, Jr. (University of California, USA)Part I: Shakespeare’s White PeopleChapter 1‘Two loves I have of comfort and despair:’ The Circle of Whiteness in the Sonnets Imtiaz Habib (Old Dominion University, USA)Chapter 2Staging the Blazon: Black and White and Red All OverEvelyn Gajowski (University of Nevada, USA)Chapter 3Red Blood on White Saints: Affective Piety, Racial Violence, and Measure for MeasureDennis Austin Britton (University of New Hampshire, USA)Chapter 4Antonio’s White Penis: Category Trading in The Merchant of VeniceIan Smith (Lafayette College, USA)Chapter 5‘Envy Pale of Hew’: Whiteness and Division in ‘Fair Verona’Kyle Grady (University of California, USA)Chapter 6“Shake thou to look on’t”: Shakespearean White HandsDavid Sterling Brown (Binghamton University, SUNY, USA)Chapter 7‘Pales in the Flood’: Blood, Soil, and Whiteness in Shakespeare’s HenriadAndrew Clark Wagner (University of California, USA)Chapter 8Disrupting White Genealogies in CymbelineJoyce MacDonald (University of Kentucky, USA)Chapter 9White Freedom, White Property, and White Tears: Classical Racial Paradigms and the Construction of Whiteness in Julius CaesarKatherine Gillen (Texas A&M University, USA)Chapter 10Hamlet and the Education of the White SelfEric De Barros (American University of Sharjah, UAE)Chapter 11‘The Blank of What He Was’: Dryden, Newton, and the Discipline of Shakespeare’s White PeopleJustin P. Shaw (Clark University, USA)Part II: White People’s Shakespeare Chapter 12Can You Be White and Hear This?: The Racial Art of Listening in American Moor and DesdemonaKim Hall (Barnard College, USA)Chapter 13White Lies: In ConversationPeter Sellars (UCLA, USA) and Ayanna Thompson (Arizona State University, USA)Chapter 14A Theatre Practice against the Unbearable Whiteness of Shakespeare: In ConversationKeith Hamilton Cobb (actor, USA), Anchuli Felicia King (playwright and screenwriter, AUS), and Robin Alfriend Kello (University of California, USA)Chapter 15‘The soul of a great white poet’: Shakespearean Educations and the Civil Rights EraJason M. Demeter (Norfolk State University, USA)Chapter 16‘White Anger: Shakespeare’s my Meat’Ruben Espinosa (Arizona State University, USA)Chapter 17‘I saw them in my visage’: Whiteness, Race Studies, and Early Modern CultureMargo Hendricks (University of California, USA)Chapter 18The White Shakespearean and Daily PracticeJean E. Howard (Columbia University, USA)Chapter 19No Exeunt: The Urgent Work of Critical WhitenessPeter Erickson (Northwestern University, USA)Index

Expressing ideas that have developed over several decades of brave and tenacious scholarship, this collection opens a new chapter in the study of Shakespeare and the study of race. It sets out a clear demand for future scholarship, artistic practice, and activism: to produce a Shakespeare that is about “more than whiteness.” With searching intellectual power and heart, White People In Shakespeare demonstrates why the critique of "whiteness" is a precondition for understanding Shakespeare in the 21st Century.