Barbarous play : race on the English Renaissance stage

Barbarous play : race on the English Renaissance stage / Lara Bovilsky.

Barbarous Play examines English Renaissance understandings of race as depicted in drama. Reading plays by Shakespeare, Marlowe, Webster, and Middleton, Lara Bovilsky offers case studies of how racial meanings are generated by narratives of boundary crossing -- especially miscegenation, religious con...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bovilsky, Lara, 1973- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2008]
Subjects:
1500-1699
Race in literature.
English drama > Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600 > History and criticism.
English drama > 17th century > History and criticism.
Theater > England > History > 16th century.
Theater > England > History > 17th century.
Race in the theater > England > History.
DRAMA > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
English drama
English drama > Early modern and Elizabethan
Race in literature
Race in the theater
Theater
England
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Race on the Renaissance stage
  • 1. Desdemona's blackness
  • 2. Exemplary Jews and the logic of gentility
  • 3. The English Italian
  • 4. Race, science, and aversion.

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