Speaking of the Moor
Subtitle: from Alcazar to Othello
By: Emily C. Bartels.
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 252
ISBN-13: 9780812240764
Subjects: Shakespeare, William, -- 1564-1616; Othello (Fictitious character); Blacks in literature; Muslims in literature
Description: "In Speaking of the Moor, Emily Bartels sets the early modern Moor plays beside contemporaneous texts that embed Moorish figures within England's historical record - Richard Hakluyt's Principal Navigations, Queen Elizabeth's letters proposing the deportation of England's "blackamoors," and John Pory's translation of The History and Description of Africa. Her book uncovers the surprising complexity of England's negotiation and accommodation of difference at the end of the Elizabethan era."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [227]-241) and index.
Table of contents: title: On sitting down to read Othello once again; title: Enter Barbary: The battle of Alcazar and 'the World'; title: Imperialist beginnings: Hakluyt's Navigations and the place and displacement of Africa; title: 'Incorporate in Rome': Titus Andronicus and the consequence of conquest; title: Too many blackamoors: deportation, discrimination, and Elizabeth I; title: Banishing 'all the Moors': Lust's dominion and the story of Spain; title: Cultural traffic: The history and description of Africa and the unmooring of the Moor; title: The 'stranger of here and everywhere': Othello and the Moor of Venice.