Lecture Series
Shakespeare and Un-Freedom
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Description
Ayanna Thompson is Director of the Arizona Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies (ACMRS) at Arizona State University. She is the author of Shakespeare in the Theatre: Peter Sellars (Arden Bloomsbury, 2018), Teaching Shakespeare with Purpose: A Student-Centered Approach (Arden Bloomsbury, 2016), Passing Strange: Shakespeare, Race, and Contemporary America (Oxford University Press, 2011), and Performing Race and Torture on the Early Modern Stage (Routledge, 2008). She wrote the new introduction for the revised Arden3 Othello (Arden, 2016), and is the editor of Weyward Macbeth: Intersections of Race and Performance (Palgrave, 2010) and Colorblind Shakespeare: New Perspectives on Race and Performance (Routledge, 2006). She is currently working on a collection of essays for Cambridge University Press on Shakespeare and race, and is collaborating with Curtis Perry on the Arden4 edition of Titus Andronicus. Professor Thompson is the 2018-19 President of the Shakespeare Association of America, and has served as a member of the Board of Directors for the Association of Marshall Scholars. She was one of Phi Beta Kappa’s Visiting Scholars for 2017-2018. The Forty-Seventh James Edwin Savage Lecture in the Renaissance will take place on April 4 at 6:30 p.m. in the Bondurant Auditorium.
Publication Date
4-4-2019
Relational Format
presentation
Disciplines
Literature in English, British Isles
Recommended Citation
Thompson, Ayanna, "Shakespeare and Un-Freedom" (2019). Lecture Series. 4.
https://egrove.olemiss.edu/eng_lec/4