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 conver...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bovilsky, Lara, 1973-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2008.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Theater.
Race in the theater.
Race in literature.
English drama > Early modern and Elizabethan.
English drama.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
DRAMA > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Race au theâtre > Angleterre > Histoire.
Theâtre > Angleterre > Histoire > 17e siecle.
Theâtre > Angleterre > Histoire > 16e siecle.
Theâtre anglais > 17e siecle > Histoire et critique.
Theâtre anglais > 16e siecle > Histoire et critique.
Race dans la litterature.
Race in the theater > England > History.
Theater > England > History > 17th century.
Theater > England > History > 16th century.
English drama > 17th century > History and criticism.
English drama > Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600 > History and criticism.
England.
History
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
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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