Barbarous play [[electronic resource] ] : race on the English Renaissance stage / / Lara Bovilsky

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910454456103321
• Autore: Bovilsky Lara <1973->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, 2008
• ISBN: 0-8166-5656-8
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (230 p.)
• Disciplina: 822/.309355
• Soggetti: Race in literature; English drama - Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600 - History and criticism; English drama - 17th century - History and criticism; Theater - England - History - 16th century; Theater - England - History - 17th century; Race in the theater - England - History; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction. Race on the Renaissance stage -- 1. Desdemona's blackness -- 2. Exemplary Jews and the logic of gentility -- 3. The English Italian -- 4. Race, science, and aversion.
• Sommario/riassunto: "Exploring the similar underpinnings of early modern and contemporary ideas of difference, this book examines the English Renaissance understandings of race as depicted in drama. Reading plays by Shakespeare, Marlow, Webster, and Middleton, Lara Bovilsky offers case studies of how racial meanings are generated by narratives of boundary crossing--especially miscegenation, religious conversion, class transgression, and moral and physical degeneracy. In the process, she reveals the parallels between the period's conceptions of race and gender"--From publisher description.