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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... tion seems to support the arguments that critics like Roxann Wheeler , Bridget Orr , and Derek Hughes have leveled . Race was not a factor on the Restoration stage , so the argument goes , because playwrights and critics from the period ...
... tion and dialogue , elements that Cibber's plays rarely emphasize " ( 158 ) . In other words , the true spectacle of the show was never achieved in Lincoln's Inn Fields because the excessive nature of Xerxes ' and Xerxes ' exploits ...
... tion of The Theater and Its Double : only page numbers will be provided parenthetically . 2. John Dryden , The Indian Emperour , or The Conquest of Mexico by the Spaniards ( 1665 ) in The Works of John Dryden , Vol . IX , eds . Edward ...
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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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