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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... important to acknowledge that race is not simply defined in terms of color . Early modern race scholars will do well to heed their warnings that an over attention to color may lead to misreadings of some of these texts . Yet , it is ...
... important than anything imposed on him ( " let me know myself " ) , but also he stresses that he will never be accessible to the English colonists ( he is " out of [ their ] reach " ) . Southerne creates a character that is ...
... importance of the heroic outside of the play . Seizing on the image of Dryden as torturer , an anonymous defender of ... important foreign characters from Dryden's plays - Almanzor and Montezuma . What becomes evident from the publicized ...
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