Speaking of the Moor: From "Alcazar" to "Othello"University of Pennsylvania Press, 03.08.2010 - 264 Seiten Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title |
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... seems like a ghastly caricature in its excessive , out- rageous , even gratuitous violence ; and finally — but only — one , Othello ( ca. 1604 ) , that has commanded widespread critical respect and theatrical atten- tion ? Why sit down ...
... seems to mar the Moor's story is, in fact, essen- tial to its core, not because, as a signifier, “Moor” is unstable and unreadable but because, as a subject, “the Moor” does not have a single or pure, cultur- ally or racially bounded ...
... seems not coincidentally to be both “ black in his look , and bloody in his deeds , ” his face “ full of fraud and vil- lainy ” providing a readable sign of his malignancy ( 1Pro.6 , 16 ; 5.1.70 ) . In Titus , Aaron presents himself as ...
... seem to be an endlessly proliferating set of variables. It is all the more important, then, to understand the complexities that define and disturb early modern represen- tations of Moors. Whatever else we may learn, to sit down to read ...
... seems no coincidence that references to “ all the world ” surface repeatedly in plays that feature Moors . For there was perhaps no figure better suited to an exploration of that world and the ideological adjustments it required than ...
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Imperialist Beginnings Hakluyts Navigations and the Place and Displacement of Africa | 45 |
Incorporate in Rome Titus Andronicus and the Consequence of Conquest | 65 |
Too Many Blackamoors Deportation Discrimination and Elizabeth I | 100 |
Banishing all the Moors Lusts Dominion and the Story of Spain | 118 |
Cultural Traffic The History and Description of Africa and the Unmooring of the Moor | 138 |
The stranger of here and everywhere Othello and the Moor of Venice | 155 |
A Brave New World | 191 |
NOTES | 195 |
BIBLIOGRAPHY | 227 |
INDEX | 243 |
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS | 251 |