Barbarous play : race on the English Renaissance stage / Lara Bovilsky.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bovilsky, Lara, 1973-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Race in literature.

English drama--Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600--History and criticism.

English drama.

English drama--17th century--History and criticism.

Theater--England--History--16th century.

Theater.

Theater--England--History--17th century.

Race in the theater--England--History.

Race in the theater.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (230 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"Exploring the similar underpinnings of early modern and contemporary ideas of difference, this book examines the English Renaissance understandings of race as depicted in drama. Reading plays by Shakespeare, Marlow, Webster, and Middleton, Lara Bovilsky offers case studies of how racial meanings are generated by narratives of boundary crossing--especially miscegenation, religious conversion, class transgression, and moral and physical degeneracy. In the process, she reveals the parallels between the period's conceptions of race and gender"--From publisher description.

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-8166-5656-8

OCLC:

476167508