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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... played Crimalhaz , Thomas Betterton . And as the William Dolle engravings seem to indicate , Better- ton did not portray this role in blackface ( see Figure 2.6 ) . Through the play's continued and conspicuous destabilization of the ...
... play : " Thus , the play opens and closes with two forms of abuse in the name of religion . " It is important to note , however , how Dryden distinguishes these two " bloody " acts theatrically : the Indian sacrifice of " Five hundred ...
... play , seem self - propelled and self - revealing . Once again , the heroism of the Spanish conquest is called into question before the heroic tragedy has even begun . But the instability of the signification of the name Montezuma ...
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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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