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001 2008004242
003 DLC
005 20090924084752.0
008 080130s2008 mnu b s001 0 eng
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020 $a9780816649648 (alk. paper)
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035 $a(OCoLC)ocn191760080
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050 00 $aPR658.R34$bB68 2008
082 00 $a822/.309355$222
100 1 $aBovilsky, Lara,$d1973-
245 10 $aBarbarous play :$brace on the English Renaissance stage /$cLara Bovilsky.
260 $aMinneapolis :$bUniversity of Minnesota Press,$cc2008.
300 $ax, 218 p. ;$c23 cm.
520 $a"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.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 197-210) and index.
505 0 $aIntroduction. 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.
650 0 $aRace in literature.
650 0 $aEnglish drama$yEarly modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aEnglish drama$y17th century$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aTheater$zEngland$xHistory$y16th century.
650 0 $aTheater$zEngland$xHistory$y17th century.
650 0 $aRace in the theater$zEngland$xHistory.