| Description |
1 online resource (x, 218 pages) |
| 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 |
| Summary |
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. -- Publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-210) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Race in literature.
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English drama -- Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600 -- History and criticism
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English drama -- 17th century -- History and criticism
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Theater -- England -- History -- 16th century
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Theater -- England -- History -- 17th century
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Race in the theater -- England -- History
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DRAMA -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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English drama
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English drama -- Early modern and Elizabethan
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Race in literature
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Race in the theater
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Theater
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England
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780816656561 |
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0816656568 |
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0816649642 |
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9780816649648 |
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0816649650 |
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9780816649655 |
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