Performing Race and Torture on the Early Modern StageRoutledge, 2008 - 174 Performing Race and Torture on the Early Modern Stage provides the first sustained reading of Restoration plays through a performance theory lens. This approach shows that an analysis of the conjoined performances of torture and race not only reveals the early modern interest in the nature of racial identity, but also how race was initially coded in a paradoxical fashion as both essentially fixed and socially constructed. An examination of scenes of torture provides the most effective way to unearth these seemingly contradictory representations of race because depictions of torture often interrogate the incongruous desire to substitute the visible and manipulable materiality of the body for the more illusive performative nature of identity. In turn, Performing Race and Torture on the Early Modern Stage challenges the long-standing assumption that early modern conceptions of race were radically different in their fluidity from post-Enlightenment ones by demonstrating how many of the debates we continue to have about the nature of racial identity were engendered by these seventeenth-century performances. |
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... Dryden was clearly working from some historical sources such as New World accounts by Francisco Lopez de Gomara , Gonzalo de Tapia , Gonzalo de Umbria , Bernal Diaz del Castillo , and the letters of Cortez , he was also using English ...
... Dryden's ability to inscribe the English into this conquest . If the name Montezuma represents the play or the man himself , then the relationship between the creator and the created is unequivocal : the English audience and English ...
... Dryden's early Restoration plays . He speculates that when Dryden's company , the King's Company , was burned out of the Theatre Royal in 1672 and moved into Davenant's old theatre , Lincoln's Inn Fields , they found many of Davenant's ...
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