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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... Ravenscroft emphasizes the " Treachery of Villains " who spread " False Evidence . " When in 1678 Titus Oates , a ... Ravenscroft's rewriting and the fear of the Popish Plot , however , than in the way anxieties about religious alterity ...
... Ravenscroft's revision , Titus does not rail against Marcus for his lin- guistic insensitivity because his words would admit his own willingness to test the limits of linguistic expression . Likewise , Ravenscroft does not allow Lavinia ...
Ayanna Thompson. Ravenscroft edits the speech in such a way to emphasize Aaron's awareness of his difference in terms of color . It is especially telling that Ravenscroft has Aaron compare his blackness to the " Whites that call [ him ] ...
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