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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... Montezuma shifts between several different sig- nifications . Montezuma , as the Indian Emperor of Mexico , is substituted for the proper name of the play itself , and therefore represents Dryden's creation . But the passage also seems ...
... Montezuma compli- cates 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 ...
... Montezuma from the rack , he hopes that Montezuma will resume his reign under Spanish control . Montezuma's death speech belies the heroism of this offer . Freed from the rack , but nonetheless under Spanish rule , Montezuma declares ...
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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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