Speaking of the Moor [electronic resource] : from Alcazar to Othello / Emily C. Bartels.
Material type: TextPublication details: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2008Description: viii, 252 pISBN: 9780812200294 (electronic bk.)Subject(s): Peele, George, 1556-1596. Battle of Alcazar | Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Othello | Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Titus Andronicus | Lust's dominion; or, The lascivious queen | English drama -- Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600 -- History and criticism | Blacks in literature | Race in literature | Africa -- In literature | England -- Race relations -- History -- 16th centuryGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 822.309355 LOC classification: PR658.A4 | B37 2008Online resources: Click to ViewIncludes bibliographical references and index.
On sitting down to read Othello once again -- Enter Barbary: The battle of Alcazar and 'the World' -- Imperialist beginnings: Hakluyt's Navigations and the place and displacement of Africa -- 'Incorporate in Rome': Titus Andronicus and the consequence of conquest -- Too many blackamoors: deportation, discrimination, and Elizabeth I -- Banishing 'all the Moors': Lust's dominion and the story of Spain -- Cultural traffic: The history and description of Africa and the unmooring of the Moor -- The 'stranger of here and everywhere': Othello and the Moor of Venice.
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