A two-day free online event exploring the performance of race on the Shakespearean stage
The event consists of three sessions: a lecture, ‘Racecraft’ by Noémie Ndiaye (University of Chicago); a Roundtable on teaching race and early modern drama in the university classroom with Lynette Goddard (Royal Holloway University of London), Nandini Das (University of Oxford), Joyce Macdonald (University of Kentucky) and Farah Karim-Cooper (Shakespeare’s Globe and King’s College London); and Research in Action: Othello in context and in a new light, co-ordinated by Will Tosh (Shakespeare’s Globe), which will use specially staged and filmed extracts. This workshop asks us to consider Othello in the light of Soliman and Perseda (probably by Thomas Kyd) and Lust’s Dominion (Thomas Dekker and others). Discussion will then be led by Dennis Britton (University of New Hampshire), Delia Jarrett-Macauley (writer and academic) and Matthew Dimmock (University of Sussex).