Overview

This collection theorizes the intersections between race, Shakespearean adaptation and pop culture. Chapters take a range of investigative approaches, some centring Shakespeare and others using Shakespeare to theorize pop culture, but all focusing on the ethical implications of the triangulation between Shakespeare, pop culture and race. Chapters explore the tensions between the ‘low’, racialized status of a pop culture form and Shakespeare’s ‘high’ status; the ways race informs a specific Shakespearean reference (in film, television, music, Young Adult literature and self-help manuals, among other forms); and the influence loop between Shakespeare and the systemic racism of creative industries, such as Hollywood and book publishing. As the analysis of race expands within Shakespeare studies, so too, this collection argues, should the archives for analyzing Shakespeare and race grow. While it is now more common to consider race and embodiment in both early modern and contemporary Shakespearean performance and adaptation, pop culture remains underexplored and undertheorized. As this collection demonstrates, rigorous theoretical and methodological approaches can illuminate how pop culture uses Shakespeare to uphold, contest and shape existing racial imaginaries for broad audiences.

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Author:   Vanessa I. Corredera (Baylor University, USA) ,  L. Monique Pittman (Andrews University, USA) ,  Professor Mark Thornton Burnett (Queen's University Belfast, UK)
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   The Arden Shakespeare
Dimensions:   Width: 14.20cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 21.80cm
Weight:   0.480kg
ISBN:  

9781350500570

ISBN 10:   1350500577
Pages:   270
Publication Date:   19 February 2026
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

Notes on Contributors Acknowledgements Introduction: Shakespeare, Race and the Power of the Popular Vanessa I. Corredera (Baylor University, USA) and L. Monique Pittman (Andrews University, USA) 1. ‘The King I Know He Is’: Black Masculinity in the Intertextual Network of Shakespeare’s Hamlet, Disney’s The Lion King and Beyoncé’s Black is King Claire Dawkins (Stanford University Online High School, USA) 2. Adapting Whiteness: Race and the Politics of Shakespeare for Young Readers Tyler Sasser (University of Alabama, USA) 3. ‘Calling all the Tiger Mom wannabes!’: Parenting with and without Shakespeare across Racial Lines Jeanette Nguyen Tran (Drake University, USA) 4. ‘The future in the instant’: Whiteness, Temporality and Frances McDormand’s Coen Brothers Archive in Joel Coen’s Postmenopausal Macbeth Jennie M. Votava (Allegheny College, USA) 5. Pop Remix: Shakespeare and White Womanhood in The Mexican-American Novel Daniel G. Lauby (University of Maine Farmington and Oxford Hills Comprehensive High School, USA) 6. Emily Dickinson Casts Othello: Shakespeare and White Allyship in AppleTV+’s Dickinson Marianne Montgomery (Thomas Harriot College of Arts and Sciences at East Carolina University, USA) and Vanessa L. Rapatz (Ball State University, USA) 7. ‘Alpha, Beta, Cuck’: King Lear, Succession and the Rescripting of White Masculinity Maya Mathur (University of Mary Washington, USA) 8. Shakespeare and Race in Two Pop Culture Versions of Station Eleven Michael D. Friedman (University of Scranton, USA) 9. Shakespeare and Bridgerton: The Myths of Race and Gender in Regency Romance Taarini Mookherjee (Queen's University Belfast, UK) Epilogue: Moonflower Murders and the Racial Evasions of Pop Vanessa I. Corredera (Baylor University, USA) and L. Monique Pittman (Andrews University, USA) Bibliography Index

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Vanessa I. Corredera is Professor of English at Baylor University, USA. L. Monique Pittman is Professor of English and Director of the J. N. Andrews Honors Program at Andrews University, USA.

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