English Ethnicity and Race in Early Modern Drama (Hardcover)

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.

General

Imprint:	Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	February 2003
First published:	2003
Authors:	Mary Floyd-Wilson
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 19mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	270
ISBN-13:	978-0-521-81056-2
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > 16th to 18th centuries Books > Language & Literature > Literature: texts > Drama texts, plays > General
LSN:	0-521-81056-6
Barcode:	9780521810562

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