Barbarous play

Description:

"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.

subjects: History,  Theater,  English drama,  History and criticism,  Race in the theater,  Race in literature,  English drama, history and criticism, early modern and elizabethan, 1500-1600,  English drama, history and criticism, 17th century,  Theater, great britain, history,  English drama--history and criticism,  English drama--early modern and elizabethan, 1500-1600--history and criticism,  English drama--17th century--history and criticism,  Theater--history,  Theater--england--history--16th century,  Theater--england--history--17th century,  Race in the theater--history,  Race in the theater--england--history,  Pr658.r34 b68 2008,  822/.309355,  Social sciences,  Ethnic studies

Places: England

Times: 17th century,  Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600,  16th century