- All's Well That Ends Well
- Antony and Cleopatra
- As You Like It
- The Comedy of Errors
- Coriolanus
- Cymbeline
- Hamlet
- Henry IV, Part 1
- Henry IV, Part 2
- Henry V
- Henry VI, Part 1
- Henry VI, Part 2
- Henry VI, Part 3
- Henry VIII
- Julius Caesar
- King John
- King Lear
- Love's Labor's Lost
- A Lover's Complaint
- Macbeth
- Measure for Measure
- The Merchant of Venice
- The Merry Wives of Windsor
- A Midsummer Night's Dream
- Much Ado About Nothing
- Othello
- Pericles
- The Rape of Lucrece
- Richard II
- Richard III
- Romeo and Juliet
- Shakespeare's Sonnets
- The Taming of the Shrew
- The Tempest
- Timon of Athens
- Titus Andronicus
- Troilus and Cressida
- Twelfth Night
- The Two Gentlemen of Verona
- Venus and Adonis
- The Winter's Tale
At the beginning of the book, Willis, the protagonist, introduces the character of “Generic Asian Man,” the role that all the Asian men who act on Black and White, a police procedural show, start out playing. Generic Asian Man—and all other Asian characters on the show, for that matter—is a stock character lacking in complexity and importance. It’s one of the many stereotypical characters that Willis plays over the course of his career; other such parts include “Background Oriental Male” and “Oriental Guy Making a Strange Face.”
Though slightly different in name, all these roles have a generic, dehumanizing…