Barbarous Play: Race on the English Renaissance Stage
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
Barbarous Play: Race on the English Renaissance Stage
By (Author) Lara Bovilsky
University of Minnesota Press
University of Minnesota Press
27th August 2008
United States
Classifications
General
Non Fiction
Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800
822
Physical Properties
Paperback
208
Width 152mm, Height 229mm, Spine 15mm
Description
Exploring the similar underpinnings of early modern and contemporary ideas of difference, Barbarous Play examines English Renaissance understandings of race as depicted in drama. Reading plays by Shakespeare, Marlowe, Webster, and Middleton, Bovilsky offers case studies of how racial meanings are enerated by narratives of boundary crossingespecially miscegenation, religious conversion, class transgression, and moral and physical degeneracy. In the process, she reveals deep parallels between the period's conceptions of race and gender.
