Shakespeare's Racial Destiny: Tragic Whiteness and the Spirit-Savage Binary in Edwin Booth's Hamlet and Othello

Eight months after John Wilkes Booth shot President Abraham Lincoln, his brother and fellow Shakespearean actor Edwin Booth returned to the national stage as Hamlet. Opening night, January 2, 1866, saw a crowd of hundreds thronging the entrance to the Winter Garden Theatre, clamoring to see Booth’s...

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