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

Zusatztext "Richly embedded in the historical discourses of conduct! from ars apodemica to angling! and brilliantly attuned to the legacy of indelible difference in the political present! Shakespeare and the Cultivation of Difference is a book that will shake up the feld."- Professor Ellen MacKay! Recent Studies in Tudor and Stuart Drama Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext Shakespeare and the Cultivation of Difference reveals the relationship between racial discrimination and the struggle for upward social mobility in the early modern world. Zusammenfassung Shakespeare and the Cultivation of Difference reveals the relationship between racial discrimination and the struggle for upward social mobility in the early modern world. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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

Product details

• Authors: Patricia Akhimie
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.03.2018
• EAN: 9780815356431
• ISBN: 978-0-8153-5643-1
• No. of pages: 220
• Series: Routledge Studies in Shakespeare; Routledge Studies in Shakespeare
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama > Drama; Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; DRAMA / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory, PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / General, Theatre Studies, Literature: history & criticism, Literary studies: general, Literary theory, Literature: history and criticism, Plays, Playscripts, Classic and pre-20th century plays