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    Adapting Ethnicity:: From Homogeneous Globe To Multicultural Mixed-Media

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    This document discusses the portrayal of ethnicity on the Elizabethan stage and how productions have adapted Shakespeare's plays featuring non-white characters over time. It provides examples of actors from different ethnic backgrounds taking on roles like Othello, Shylock, and Caliban. The document also shows how directors have updated settings and interpretations of the plays to reflect changing views of ethnicity and cultural influences.

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    This document discusses the portrayal of ethnicity on the Elizabethan stage and how productions have adapted Shakespeare's plays featuring non-white characters over time. It provides examples of actors from different ethnic backgrounds taking on roles like Othello, Shylock, and Caliban. The document also shows how directors have updated settings and interpretations of the plays to reflect changing views of ethnicity and cultural influences.

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    This document discusses the portrayal of ethnicity on the Elizabethan stage and how productions have adapted Shakespeare's plays featuring non-white characters over time. It provides examples of actors from different ethnic backgrounds taking on roles like Othello, Shylock, and Caliban. The document also shows how directors have updated settings and interpretations of the plays to reflect changing views of ethnicity and cultural influences.

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    Adapting Ethnicity:

    From Homogeneous Globe to Multicultural MixedMedia

    These are the players

    Henry Peachams (c. 1595) sketch of a play in progress

    Elizabethan costumes

    Actors on the Globe stage, wearing whatever they can get

    Aaron the Moor

    Is this the only evidence of ethnicity on stage?

    The Merchant of Venice

    Director John Juliani with Jon/Shylock (David Berner), 1996

    The 3000-ducat money shot

    Patrick Stewart (in town for the X-Men) talk shop with Shylock star

    Othello

    Orson Welles (1952) in the title role, with Iago (Micheal MacLiammoir)

    the valiant Moor

    Patrick Stewart (1997) as Othello in Washington, with Iago (Ron Canada)

    The Tempest

    European influence over native islanders came in a bottle

    Caliban

    Civil war humour American Tempest courtesy of the 1863 Punch

    A Maori Merchant of Venice

    Jessica, Lorenzo and Portia in Belmont fairyland

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