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Corredera, Vanessa I. “‘How Dey Goin’ to Kill Othello?!’ Key & Peele and Shakespearean Universality.” Journal of American Studies 54, no. 1 (2020): 27–35.
Investigates the question of Shakespeare’s universality through the lens of a 21st-century comedic sketch by Key and Peele. Through a close reading of the sketch, Corredera demonstrates how Key and Peele both gesture towards the limits of Shakespearean universality and consider the representation of Black masculinity more broadly. This essay is of interest to students of Shakespeare, Blackness, and English literature.
