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Ayanna Thompson, Arizona University – On Protean Acting in Shakespeare: Race & Virtuosity
Ayanna Thompson, Arizona University – On Protean Acting in Shakespeare: Race & Virtuosity
From the early modern period, actors have been praised for being "protean" when they perform cross-racial impersonations. This talk will think through that legacy and how virtuosity in acting is implicitly and explicitly racialized. Speaker Ayanna Thompson (Arizona State University) Biography Ayanna Thompson is director of the Arizona Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies at Arizona …