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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... critics in order to bring to light the ways that the performances of torture have been neglected by historians and theorists . By focusing on revealing the actual use of torture , these critics construct themselves as combating the ...
... critics like Roxann Wheeler , Bridget Orr , and Derek Hughes have leveled . Race was not a factor on the Restoration stage , so the argument goes , because playwrights and critics from the period not only do not mention color , but also ...
... critics . The anonymous writer of A Description of the Academy of the Athenian Virtuosi ( 1673 ) claims to have visited the coffeehouse where Leigh and his fellow " virtuosi " convened to discuss literature . He describes their horrific ...
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