When: Monday, June 20th, 11:00 am-12:00 pm
Presenter: Dr. Carol Mejia LaPerle (Professor, English, Wright State University)

Description: Shakespeare’s plays have been lauded for their aesthetic and cultural value. Unfortunately, many high schoolers do not consider this endorsement all that motivating or useful. In fact, students are increasingly interested in interrogating literature not for its own sake, but for the knowledge and tools it brings to contemporary live experiences.
To interrogate Shakespeare’s tragedies in its racial contexts, therefore, equips students with a crucial interpretive lens and historical understanding of racial formation’s role in identity, performance, and culture. This session will focus on the history of racial impersonation on Shakespearean stages, the culture’s representation of social outsiders, and the powerful dark/light dichotomy as a central trope that continues to inform our understanding of race today. Familiarity with the plays are not required. However, some scenes from Othello, Macbeth, and Antony and Cleopatra can be triggering.

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