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Barbarous Play: Race on the English Renaissance Stage
Paperback / softback
Main Details
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Barbarous Play: Race on the English Renaissance Stage
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| Authors and Contributors |
By (author) Lara Bovilsky
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| Physical Properties |
| Format:Paperback / softback | | Pages:208 | | Dimensions(mm): Height 229,Width 152 |
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| Category/Genre | Literary studies - plays and playwrights |
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| ISBN/Barcode |
9780816649655
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| Classifications | Dewey:822 |
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Publishing Details |
| Publisher |
University of Minnesota Press
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| Imprint |
University of Minnesota Press
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| Publication Date |
24 June 2008 |
| Publication Country |
United States
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Description
Exploring the similar underpinnings of early modern and contemporary ideas of difference, Barbarous Play examines English Renaissance understandings of race as depicted in drama. Reading plays by Shakespeare, Marlowe, Webster, and Middleton, Bovilsky offers case studies of how racial meanings are enerated by narratives of boundary crossingespecially miscegenation, religious conversion, class transgression, and moral and physical degeneracy. In the process, she reveals deep parallels between the period's conceptions of race and gender.
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