How Shakespeare Changed Everything.
Published In: National Review, 2023, v. 75, n. 8. P. 23 1 of 3
Database: Academic Search Ultimate 2 of 3
Authored By: HANNAN, DANIEL 3 of 3
Abstract
FEATURES WHITE people did not properly exist as a category until Shakespeare called them into being. Worse, Shakespeare, being Shakespeare, makes Shylock plausible. This is the context, by the way, in which the editor's introduction to White People in Shakespeare talks of the invention of whiteness: If Shakespeare more than any other writer may be said to have stretched and shaped the possibilities of language to give us us, the modern human, the human, by expanding the poetic range of the English language itself, then Shakespeare remains key to any study of the further emergence of a "white people" in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth century. [Extracted from the article]
Additional Information
- Source:National Review. 2023/05, Vol. 75, Issue 8, p23
- Document Type:Interview
- Subject Area:History
- Publication Date:2023
- ISSN:0028-0038
- Accession Number:163030692
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