Barbarous play
Subtitle: race on the English Renaissance stage
By: Lara Bovilsky.
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Minneapolis
Language: eng
Number of pages: 218
ISBN-13: 9780816649648; 9780816649655
Subjects: Race in literature; English drama -- Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600 -- History and criticism; English drama -- 17th century -- History and criticism; Theater -- England -- History -- 16th century; Theater -- England -- History -- 17th century; Race in the theater -- England -- History
Description: "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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.