Antiracism in Othello sketch comedy, 1967-1999
Despite Shakespeare’s rejection of comic, racist stereotypes in Othello, minstrel shows offered racist blackface caricatures of slaves and others of African descent that filtered through British Music Hall and Variety to television sketch comedy. Analyses of twenty-five screened appropriations of O...
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Cracow Tertium Society for the Promotion of Language Studies
2022-04-01
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| Series: | The European Journal of Humour Research |
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| Online Access: | https://www.europeanjournalofhumour.org/ejhr/article/view/596 |