Performing Race and Torture on the Early Modern StageRoutledge, 2008 - 174页 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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... revenge tragedy contemporaries to Titus Andronicus , are no less violent , sanguinary , and disgusting . What makes Shakespeare's play unique within the genre is his interweaving of a revenge plot with racial politics . Revenge ...
... revenge tragedy . In fact , he claims " ' tis the most incorrect and indi- gested piece in all his Works " ( A2 ) . Ravenscroft's aim , then , is to construct a play that is both correct and digested . His rewriting is largely ...
... ( Cambridge : Cam- bridge University Press , 2005 ) , 130-148 . 7. John Kerrigan , Revenge Tragedy : Aeschylus to Armageddon ( Oxford : Oxford University Press , 1996 ) , 6 . 8. Cynthia Marshall , The Shattering of the Self : 152 Notes.
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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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