Barbarous Play : Race on the English Renaissance Stage.
Title:
Barbarous Play : Race on the English Renaissance Stage.
Author:
Bovilsky, Lara.
ISBN:
9780816656561
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (230 pages)
Contents:
Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 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 -- Coda -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- X -- Y.
Abstract:
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 conversion, and class transgression. In the process, she argues that understanding just what is false and figurative in past depictions of race can clarify the illogic of present-day racism.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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