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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... rack into a familiar fam- ily hierarchy . While eliding from whence the Duke of Exeter " brought " the rack ( and it was indeed brought from the Continent ) , Coke emphasizes that the rack has been fully adopted as an English device ...
... rack for Tamira . Xerxes ' corrupt nature is fully revealed by his willingness to mix metaphorical expressions of torture with the actual deed ; he displaces the actual physical pain that Tamira will suffer ( " Bring in the rack ...
... rack , but , presumably , the rack and his corpse stay on stage throughout the play's resolution . Consequently , none of the " heroic " outcomes of this conquest Cortez's rescue of Mon- tezuma , the retreat of Alibech and Guyomar , and ...
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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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