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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... conquest of the New World . Despite the fact that Dryden's notion of this “ liberty of fancy " would have explained the type of fantastical history of English conquest that Davenant created in The Cruelty , in The Indian Emperour Dryden ...
... conquest of the New World . Dryden writes : Under your Patronage Montezuma hopes he is more safe than in his Native Indies : and therefore comes to throw himself at your Graces feet ; paying that homage to your Beauty , which he refus'd ...
... conquest : they see Cortez as separated from this brutality and violence . After all , Cortez does come to rescue Monte- zuma from the rack . An argument for Cortez's heroism and exceptionalism , however , ignores the way this scene of ...
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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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