LARA BOVILSKY
Copyright Date: 2008
Edition: NED - New edition
Published
by: University of Minnesota Press
Pages: 232
https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5749/j.ctttvbcr
Book Description:
Barbarous Play examines English Renaissance understandings of race as depicted in drama. Reading plays by Shakespeare, Marlowe, Webster, and Middleton, Lara Bovilsky offers case studies of how racial meanings are generated by narratives of boundary crossing—especially miscegenation, religious conversion, and class transgression. In the process, she argues that understanding just what is false and figurative in past depictions of race can clarify the illogic of present-day racism.
eISBN: 978-0-8166-5656-1
Subjects: Language & Literature