| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 252 pages) |
| Contents |
Introduction: On Sitting Down to Read Othello Once Again -- Ch. 1 Enter Barbary: The Battle of Alcazar and "the World" -- Ch. 2 Imperialist Beginnings: Hakluyt's Navigations and the Place and Displacement of Africa -- Ch. 3 "Incorporate in Rome": Titus Andronicus and the Consequence of Conquest -- Ch. 4 Too Many Blackamoors: Deportation, Discrimination, and Elizabeth I -- Ch. 5 Banishing "all the Moors": Lust's Dominion and the Story of Spain -- Ch. 6 Cultural Traffic: The History and Description of Africa and the Unmooring of the Moor -- Ch. 7 The "stranger of here and everywhere": Othello and the Moor of Venice -- Conclusion: A Brave New World -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
| Summary |
"Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title "Speak of me as I am," Othello, the Moor of Venice, bids in the play that bears his name. Yet many have found it impossible to speak of his ethnicity with any certainty. What did it mean to be a Moor in the early modern period? In the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, when England was expanding its reach across the globe, the Moor became a central character on the English stage. In The Battle of Alcazar, Titus Andronicus, Lust's Dominion, and Othello, the figure of the Moor took definition from multiple geographies, histories, religions, and skin colors. Rather than casting these variables as obstacles to our--and England's--understanding of the Moor's racial and cultural identity, Emily C. Bartels argues that they are what make the Moor so interesting and important in the face of growing globalization, both in the early modern period and in our own. In Speaking of the Moor, Bartels sets the early modern Moor plays beside contemporaneous texts that embed Moorish figures within England's historical record--Richard Hakluyt's Principal Navigations, Queen Elizabeth's letters proposing the deportation of England's "blackamoors," and John Pory's translation of The History and Description of Africa. Her book uncovers the surprising complexity of England's negotiation and accommodation of difference at the end of the Elizabethan era." -- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Peele, George, 1556-1596. Battle of Alcazar.
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Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Othello.
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Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Titus Andronicus.
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Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Titus Andronicus
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Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Othello
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Peele, George, 1556-1596. Battle of Alcazar
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Lust's dominion; or, The lascivious queen
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Battle of Alcazar (Peele, George) fast |
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Othello (Shakespeare, William) fast |
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Titus Andronicus (Shakespeare, William) fast |
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English drama -- Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600 -- History and criticism
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Black people in literature
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Race in literature.
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DRAMA.
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Shakespeare.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Shakespeare.
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Black people in literature
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English drama -- Early modern and Elizabethan
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Literature
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Race in literature
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Race relations
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English.
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Languages & Literatures.
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English Literature.
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Africa -- In literature
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England -- Race relations -- History -- 16th century
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Africa
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England
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| Genre/Form |
History
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780812200294 |
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0812200292 |
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1283210770 |
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9781283210775 |
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