Performing race and torture on the early modern stage

Description:

Reading Restoration plays through a performance theory lens 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.

subjects: English drama, history and criticism, 17th century,  Race in literature,  Philosophy in literature,  English drama,  History and criticism,  Torture in literature,  Other (Philosophy) in literature,  Other minds (Theory of knowledge) in literature,  Théâtre anglais,  Histoire et critique,  Race dans la littérature,  Torture dans la littérature,  Altérité dans la littérature,  DRAMA,  English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh,  Rasse,  Folter,  Inszenierung

Times: 17th century