English ethnicity and race in early modern drama /

English ethnicity and race in early modern drama /

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Author / Creator:	Floyd-Wilson, Mary.
Imprint:	Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2003.
Description:	xii, 256 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language:	English
Subject:	English drama -- Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600 -- History and criticism. Ethnicity in literature. English drama -- 17th century -- History and criticism. Ethnic relations in literature. Race relations in literature. Ethnic groups in literature. Race in literature. English drama. English drama -- Early modern and Elizabethan. Ethnic groups in literature. Ethnic relations in literature. Ethnicity in literature. Race in literature. Race relations in literature. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4863385

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ISBN:	0521810566 (hardback)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (p. 184-245) and index.

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Summary:	Drawing on classical and contemporary medical texts, histories, and cosmographies, Mary Floyd-Wilson demonstrates that the Renaissance understanding of identities contradicted many modern stereotypes concerning racial and ethnic differences. English writers of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries labored to reinvent ethnology to their own advantage, paving the way for the invention of more familiar racial ideas. Floyd-Wilson highlights these English revisionary efforts in her transformational readings of the period's drama; including Marlowe's Tamburlaine, Jonson's The Masque of Blackness, and Shakespeare's Othello and Cymbeline.
Physical Description:	xii, 256 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references (p. 184-245) and index.
ISBN:	0521810566 (hardback)