Performing Race and Torture on the Early Modern Stage

Name: Performing Race and Torture on the Early Modern Stage
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ISBN: 9781135908546

ISBN-10: 1135908540

ISBN-13: 9781135908546

Edition: N/A

Authors: Ayanna Thompson

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Performing Race and Torture on the Early Modern Stage provides the first sustained reading of Restoration plays through a performance theory lens. This approach 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. An examination of scenes of torture provides the most effective way to unearth these seemingly contradictory representations of race because depictions of torture often interrogate the incongruous desire to substitute the visible and manipulable materiality of the body for…

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Publisher: Routledge
Binding: E-Book
Pages: 192