Barbarous play : race on the English Renaissance stage /
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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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Minneapolis :
University of Minnesota Press,
[2008]
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| Online Access: | Connect to this title online (unlimited users allowed) |
| 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. -- |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (x, 218 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-210) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780816656561 0816656568 0816649642 9780816649648 0816649650 9780816649655 |