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Speaking of the Moor : From "Alcazar" to "Othello" / Emily C. Bartels.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2010]Copyright date: ©2008Description: 1 online resource (264 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780812221015
  • 9780812200294
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 822.309355 22
LOC classification:
  • PR658.A4 B37 2008eb
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  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction. On Sitting Down To Read Othello Once Again -- Chapter One. Enter Barbary -- Chapter Two. Imperialist Beginnings Hakluyt'S Navigations And The Place And Displacement Of Africa -- Chapter Three. "Incorporate In Rome" -- Chapter Four. Too Many Blackamoors -- Chapter Five. Banishing "All The Moors" -- Chapter Six. Cultural Traffic -- Chapter Seven. The "Stranger Of Here And Everywhere" -- Conclusion. A Brave New World -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Acknowledgments
Summary: Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title"Speak of me as I am," Othello, the Moor of Venice, bids in the play that bears his name. Yet many have found it impossible to speak of his ethnicity with any certainty. What did it mean to be a Moor in the early modern period? In the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, when England was expanding its reach across the globe, the Moor became a central character on the English stage. In The Battle of Alcazar, Titus Andronicus, Lust's Dominion, and Othello, the figure of the Moor took definition from multiple geographies, histories, religions, and skin colors.Rather than casting these variables as obstacles to our-and England's-understanding of the Moor's racial and cultural identity, Emily C. Bartels argues that they are what make the Moor so interesting and important in the face of growing globalization, both in the early modern period and in our own. In Speaking of the Moor, Bartels sets the early modern Moor plays beside contemporaneous texts that embed Moorish figures within England's historical record-Richard Hakluyt's Principal Navigations, Queen Elizabeth's letters proposing the deportation of England's "blackamoors," and John Pory's translation of The History and Description of Africa. Her book uncovers the surprising complexity of England's negotiation and accommodation of difference at the end of the Elizabethan era.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction. On Sitting Down To Read Othello Once Again -- Chapter One. Enter Barbary -- Chapter Two. Imperialist Beginnings Hakluyt'S Navigations And The Place And Displacement Of Africa -- Chapter Three. "Incorporate In Rome" -- Chapter Four. Too Many Blackamoors -- Chapter Five. Banishing "All The Moors" -- Chapter Six. Cultural Traffic -- Chapter Seven. The "Stranger Of Here And Everywhere" -- Conclusion. A Brave New World -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Acknowledgments

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Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title"Speak of me as I am," Othello, the Moor of Venice, bids in the play that bears his name. Yet many have found it impossible to speak of his ethnicity with any certainty. What did it mean to be a Moor in the early modern period? In the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, when England was expanding its reach across the globe, the Moor became a central character on the English stage. In The Battle of Alcazar, Titus Andronicus, Lust's Dominion, and Othello, the figure of the Moor took definition from multiple geographies, histories, religions, and skin colors.Rather than casting these variables as obstacles to our-and England's-understanding of the Moor's racial and cultural identity, Emily C. Bartels argues that they are what make the Moor so interesting and important in the face of growing globalization, both in the early modern period and in our own. In Speaking of the Moor, Bartels sets the early modern Moor plays beside contemporaneous texts that embed Moorish figures within England's historical record-Richard Hakluyt's Principal Navigations, Queen Elizabeth's letters proposing the deportation of England's "blackamoors," and John Pory's translation of The History and Description of Africa. Her book uncovers the surprising complexity of England's negotiation and accommodation of difference at the end of the Elizabethan era.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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