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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... [Montezuma and the Indian Priest] to the rack, and then pull them.] Montezuma: The gods, who made me once a king, shall know I still am worthy to continue so. Though now the subject of your tyranny, I'll plague you worse than you can ...
... Montezuma was portrayed by the English actor John Verbruggen in an Indian costume and brownface, but Artaud never stipulated how his Montezuma would perform his Indian-ness in The Conquest of Mexico. Artaud left the performance of race ...
... Montezuma in John Dryden's The Indian Emperour, and Oroonoko in Thomas Southerne's stage adaptation of Oroonoko, were all tortured in full-view onstage. Although many of these characters are depicted as having a hidden or threatening ...
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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 |