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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... color and of the mutability of identity because they belie our current sense of color's intractability . ' Bridget Orr offers a similarly persuasive point in her book , Empire on Eng- lish Stages , 1660-1714 : One of the obvious issues ...
... color is a clear sign for race . As I demonstrated in chapter 2 , critics have traditionally argued that skin color was not the crucial marker it is today . Thus , the argument follows , race was not a factor on the early modern stage ...
... color . Although the performances of Titus Andronicus , or The Rape of Lavinia and Oroo- noko , unlike The Empress of Morocco and Xerxes discussed in chapter 2 , stress the importance of color as a sign of alterity , I demonstrate how ...
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