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Arthur L. Little, Jr.

Arthur L. Little, Jr. is associate professor of English at the University of California, Los Angeles; his research and pedagogy focus on racializing processes in the early modern period as well as in the disciplinary study of the period. His publications include Shakespeare Jungle Fever: Re-Visions of Race, Rape, and Sacrifice (2000) and the forthcoming “Shakespeare and Critical Race Theories.” He is also the editor of the forthcoming “White People in Shakespeare.” icon

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To Teach Shakespeare for Survival: Talking with David Sterling Brown and Arthur L. Little Jr.

By David Sterling Brown & Arthur L. Little, Jr.

“Nostalgia is not what Shakespeare represents for me; I don’t want to make Shakespeare great again. He doesn’t need that, and neither do we.”

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