A Note from the Director of the Folger Shakespeare Library, Farah Karim-Cooper Introductions 1. Dedication to Laura Burford 2. To Hear Her Speak: Black Women, Shakespeare, and Early Modern Texts, Patricia Akhimie 3.Against Elision: Joining Expertise to Turn from Object to Visitor, Verónica E. Betancourt Part I. Black Women in Early Modern Europe: 1560-1700 4. Black Lives: Black Women on and off the Early Modern Stage, Rebecca Adusei 5. African Women and European Costume Books, Caroline Duroselle-Melish 6.
Mapping Margins: Early Modern Atlases and Black Women's Bodies, Maria Isabel Maza 7. Flexing / New Realm : Figuring Black Women in Early Modern Europe, Verónica E. Betancourt Part II. Shakespeare, Sugar, Slavery: 1620-1820 8. Turner's Hall Plantation and a Shakespeare First Folio, Patricia Ann Lott and Patricia Akhimie 9. The Bards: Phillis Wheatley and William Shakespeare, Patricia Ann Lott and Patricia Akhimie 10. Sugar and Abolition, Patricia A. Matthew 11.
The Politics of Paleness, Ashley Buchanan Part III. Taking the Stage: 1820-Present 12. The Invisible Black Woman, Ayanna Thompson 13. Jet , Ebony , and Tan : Black Performance and the Black Press, Atesede Makonnen 14. Queen's Breakthrough: Diana Sands as Lady Macbeth and Cleopatra, Shanelle E. Kim 15. From Good Times to Macbeth : Esther Rolle Across American Screen and Stage, Cen Liu 16. Afrofuturism and Costuming Shakespeare, Patricia Ann Lott and Patricia Akhimie 17.
Unsung Black Women of the Federal Theatre and the "Voodoo" Macbeth , Anna Kutter 18. We Call Her "The Queen": Performing Macbeth in Colonial Zimbabwe, Eli Cumings Part IV. Black Thought on Shakespeare: 1880-Present 19. Ida B and Lady M, Atesede Makonnen 20. Anna Julia Cooper, Dunbar High School, and Shakespeare as Racial Uplift, Anna Kutter 21. Black Women Shakespeareans and the Radical Legacy of Atlanta University, Patricia Cahill 22. Winner, Winner: Frances DeBerry Takes the Stage, Shanelle E. Kim 23.
Embracing the Stars: Lorraine Hansberry on Shakespeare, Tapiwa Gambura 24. Safiya Sinclair and the Poetry of Linguistic Rebellion, Kathryn Vomero Santos 25. Maya Angelou's Shakespeare: The Meeting of Genius, Patricia Akhimie, Tapiwa Gambura, and Kim F. Hall Part V. Epilogue: Lost Things 26. 1622, a lost play -- The Black Lady (1622) and Early Modern Black Ladies , Brandi K. Adams 27. 1821, a lost playbill -- Black Actresses, Shakespeare, and Pre-Jacksonian New York, Joyce Green MacDonald 28.
1911, a lost textbook -- Henrietta Vinton Davis: "Reading" Shakespeare as Political Activism, Kim F. Hall 29. 1953, a lost broadcast -- Looking Beyond: Toni Morrison, William Shakespeare, and the Art of Re-vision, Dalton Greene 30. 1989, a lost hip-hop musical -- Beats and Bard: Remixing Shakespeare in Club XII , Cen Liu Afterword 31. Emblematic Women, Noémie Ndiaye Index.