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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... desire is not as reassuring as it should be . Ambition and desire have not been eradi- cated from the Moroccan court with the deaths of Laula and Crimalhaz . They have merely been transferred to this burning love of " Flight , Rapture ...
... desire for equity and parity . The revenger , according to Kerrigan , is motivated by a desire to make his victim admit the similarities in their positions : if A com- mits a crime against B , then part of B's motive for revenge is to ...
... desires ( the fire is " soveraign " over their " Memories " ) . In the end , when the Dutch try to light their pipes with the " wick [ that was ] fed with English Fat , " their desire to con- flate Dutch and English identity is fully ...
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