Speaking of the Moor : From ""Alcazar"" to ""Othello""
Speaking of the Moor explores why the Moor became a central character on the English stage at the turn of the sixteenth century. Looking closely at key early modern dramatic and historical texts, the book uncovers the Moor's complex identity as a Mediterranean figure poised provocatively between European and non-European worlds
eBook, English, 2009
University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc., Philadelphia, 2009
History
1 online resource (264 pages)
9780812200294, 0812200292
1058376579
Cover; CONTENTS; INTRODUCTION: On Sitting Down to Read Othello Once Again; CHAPTER ONE: Enter Barbary: The Battle of Alcazar and "the World"; CHAPTER TWO: Imperialist Beginnings: Hakluyt's Navigations and the Place and Displacement of Africa; CHAPTER THREE: "Incorporate in Rome": Titus Andronicus and the Consequence of Conquest; CHAPTER FOUR: Too Many Blackamoors: Deportation, Discrimination, and Elizabeth I; CHAPTER FIVE: Banishing "all the Moors": Lust's Dominion and the Story of Spain; CHAPTER SIX: Cultural Traffic: The History and Description of Africa and the Unmooring of the Moor. CHAPTER SEVEN: The "stranger of here and everywhere": Othello and the Moor of VeniceCONCLUSION: A Brave New World; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; V; W; Y; Z; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS