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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... Spanish and the Dutch were depicted as cruel and unheroic figures that used torture to satisfy bizarre bloodlusts . In these plays the rack appears on the stage as a device designed by England's political rivals to aid in their unheroic ...
... Spanish are not repre- sented in a normalized fashion - that is , in a way that makes their identity literally unremarkable . Rather , Spanish - ness , like Indian - ness , is empha- sized , literally written into the script , through ...
... Spanish torturing and eating the Indians , it is not enough to emphasize their complete loss of civility . By placing English bod- ies next to Indians on the “ Engines of torment , " Davenant underscores the Spanish cruelty : they are ...
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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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