Shakespeare and the Cultivation of Difference: Race and Conduct in the Early Modern World

ISBN-13: 9780367593438 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 220 str.

Patricia Akhimie

Opis

Shakespeare and the Cultivation of Difference reveals the relationship between racial discrimination and the struggle for upward social mobility in the early modern world.

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CONTENTS

　

　

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

INTRODUCTION 1

CHAPTER 1 Othello, Blackness and the Process of Marking X

CHAPTER 2 "Bruised with Adversity": Race and the Slave/Servant

Body in The Comedy of Errors X

CHAPTER 3 "Hard-Handed Men’: Manual Labor and Imaginative

Capacity in A Midsummer Night’s Dream X

CHAPTER 4 "Fill Our Skins with Pinches": Cultivating

the Colonial Body in The Tempest X

CODA Pedestrian Check X

BIBLIOGRAPHY X

O autorze

Patricia Akhimie is Assistant Professor of English at Rutgers University-Newark. She is co-editor of　Travel and Travail: Early Modern Women, English Drama, and the Wider World　(University of　Nebraska Press), with Bernadette Andrea. Her research has been supported by the Ford Foundation, the John Carter Brown Library, and the National Sporting Library.