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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... Characters , like Aaron the Moor in Edward Ravenscroft's rewriting of Titus Andronicus , Crimalhaz in Elkanah Settle's The Empress of Morocco , Montezuma in John Dryden's The Indian Emperour , and Oroonoko in Thomas Southerne's stage ...
... characters on the Restoration stage : " Oddly enough , how- ever , it was mostly through the older plays or adaptations of them that this vision of black men was represented on the stage in the second half of the seventeenth century ...
... characters depicted , then performances of torture were also rendering the racialized body as something acces- sible , controllable , and penetrable . Unlike the plays discussed earlier in this book , both Titus Andronicus and Oroonoko ...
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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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