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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... heroic tragedies dem- onstrate how difficult and complex this distancing process was . Despite the fact that heroic tragedies were known for celebrating conquests in foreign lands and for collapsing racial , religious , and cultural ...
... heroic drama . Written about 150 years after the first production of The Indian Emperour , Scott's comments have framed and influenced the notion of the heroic tragedy for many scholars of seventeenth - century literature ...
... heroic tragedy has even begun . But the instability of the signification of the name Montezuma compli- cates Dryden's ability to inscribe the English into this conquest . If the name Montezuma represents the play or the man himself ...
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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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