Performing Race and Torture on the Early Modern StageRoutledge, 13 wrz 2013 - 192 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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... Theatre P. A. Skantze 9. Performing Race and Torture on the Early Modern Stage Ayanna Thompson 2. The Popular Culture of Shakespeare, Spenser and Jonson Mary Ellen Lamb 3. Forgetting in Early Modern English Literature and Culture ...
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... early modern stage / Ayanna Thompson. p. cm. -- (Routledge studies in Renaissance literature and culture) Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and index. ISBN 978-0-415-95721-2 (alk. paper) 1. English drama--17th century--History ...
... new theatrical tradition, Artaud declared that the “first spectacle of the Theatre of Cruelty will be entitled: The ... stage an “adaptation of a work from the time of Shakespeare, a work entirely consistent with our present troubled ...
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Religion Color and the White Actress in The Empress of Morocco and Xerxes | 25 |
Abjection and Racial Characterization in Titus Andronicus and Oroonoko | 51 |
The Indian Emperour or The Conquest of Mexico by the Spaniards | 75 |
Amboyna or The Cruelties of the Dutch to the English Merchants | 99 |
On the Images of Prisoner Abuse from Abu Ghraib | 121 |
Notes | 147 |
Bibliography | 163 |
Index | 171 |