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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... England with unwanted foreign influences . From the earliest discussions about torture in England in the fifteenth century , it was never solely about interiority , but was , instead , always about foreignness and difference . Because ...
... England . Written as a dialogue between a young prince and an older chancellor , De Laudibus seeks to identify and differentiate between the civil and criminal procedures in England and those in Europe . The young prince begins thinking ...
... England is featured in the " Leashed Man " image , I would argue that it is precisely these images that have become iconic because they depict the complete abjection of the Other without fully implicating a source for this abjection ...
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Religion Color and the White | 25 |
Abjection and Racial Characterization | 51 |
The Indian Emperour or The Conquest | 75 |
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