Barbarous play : race on the English Renaissance stage /

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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
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Bovilsky, Lara, 1973- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
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.
Race dans la littérature.
Théâtre anglais > 16e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Théâtre anglais > 17e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Théâtre > Angleterre > Histoire > 16e siècle.
Théâtre > Angleterre > Histoire > 17e siècle.
Race au théâtre > Angleterre > Histoire.
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
Online Access:Texto completo
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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