Performing Race and Torture on the Early Modern Stage: 09 (Routledge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture)

by Ayanna Thompson (Author), Ayanna Thompson (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2007

  $153.31

  Provides a reading of Restoration plays through a performance theory lens. This book 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.