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Performing race and torture on the early modern stage

Ayanna Thompson (Creator)
Ayanna Thompson re-evaluates the development of racial constructions in seventeenth-century England through an examination of popular theatrical depictions of torture.
Print Book, English, 2009
Taylor & Francis, New York, 2009
174 p.
9780415875684, 9780415957212, 0415875684, 0415957214
1040812656
Illustrations. Acknowledgments 1. Interrogating Torture and Finding Race 2. A Matter that is No Matter: Religion, Color, and the White Actress in The Empress of Morocco and Xerxes 3. When Race is Colored: Abjection and Racial Characterization in Titus Andronicus and Oroonoko 4. Racializing Civility: The Indian Emperour, or The Conquest of Mexico by the Spaniards 5. Racializing Mercantilism: Amboyna: or, The Cruelties of the Dutch to the English Merchants 6. Combating Historical Amnesia: On the Images of Prisoner Abuse from Abu Ghraib. Notes. Bibliography. Index