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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... plot as an example of a religious understanding of race , and Barthelemy reads Laula's plot in a more metaphorical way — I think they both miss an opportu- nity to discuss the fascinating metadramatic aspects of this speech ( Tok- son ...
... Plot , Ravenscroft emphasizes the " Treachery of Villains " who spread " False Evidence . " When in 1678 Titus Oates , a rogue Anglican cleric , spread the story that he had discovered a Jesuit plot against the king's life , a fervor of ...
... plot . One critic wrote that the mixture was “ absurd and most unnatural . . . . By introducing an under plot of the comic kind , though complete in all its parts , by exhibiting mirth in one scene and distress in another , our ...
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