Barbarous Play

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Author: Lara BovilskyISBN: 9780816649655Publisher: University of Minnesota PressYear first published: 27 Aug 2008Pages: 208 Format: Paperback / softbackExploring the similar underp innings of early modern and contemporary ideas of difference, Barbarous Play examines English Renaissance understandings of race as depicted in drama. Reading plays by Shakespeare, Marlowe, Webster, and Middleton, Bovilsky offers case studies of how racial meanings are enerated by narratives of boundary crossingespecially miscegenation, religious conversion, class transgression, and moral and physical degeneracy. In the process, she reveals deep parallels between the period's conceptions of race and gender. Show more