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Shakespeare and the Cultivation of Difference - Race and Conduct in the Early Modern World (Paperback)
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Shakespeare and the Cultivation of Difference - Race and Conduct in the Early Modern World (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Studies in Shakespeare
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Shakespeare and the Cultivation of Difference reveals the
relationship between racial discrimination and the struggle for
upward social mobility in the early modern world. Reading
Shakespeare's plays alongside contemporaneous conduct literature -
how-to books on self-improvement - this book demonstrates the ways
that the pursuit of personal improvement was accomplished by the
simultaneous stigmatization of particular kinds of difference. The
widespread belief that one could better, or cultivate, oneself
through proper conduct was coupled with an equally widespread
belief that certain markers (including but not limited to
"blackness"), indicated an inability to conduct oneself properly,
laying the foundation for what we now call "racism." A careful
reading of Shakespeare's plays reveals a recurring critique of the
conduct system voiced, for example, by malcontents and social
climbers like Iago and Caliban, and embodied in the struggles of
earnest strivers like Othello, Bottom, Dromio of Ephesus, and
Dromio of Syracuse, whose bodies are bruised, pinched, blackened,
and otherwise indelibly marked as uncultivatable. By approaching
race through the discourse of conduct, this volume not only exposes
the epistemic violence toward stigmatized others that lies at the
heart of self-cultivation, but also contributes to the broader
definition of race that has emerged in recent studies of
cross-cultural encounter, colonialism, and the global early modern
world.
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