ENGLISH ETHNICITY AND RACE IN EARLY MODERN DRAMA.

FLOYD-WILSON, Mary.

ISBN 10: 0521027314 / ISBN 13: 9780521027311

Published by Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006., 2006

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8vo., pp. xii,256, paperback; a very good copy indeed.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: ENGLISH ETHNICITY AND RACE IN EARLY MODERN DRAMA.
• Publisher: Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006.
• Publication Date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0521027314
• ISBN 13: 9780521027311
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Literary Criticism
  • LITERATURE

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

Mary Floyd-Wilson is Assistant Professor of English Literature at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She has published articles in several journals including English Literary Renaissance, Women's Studies, and South Atlantic Review and is a contributing author to British Identities and English Renaissance Literature (2002). She is currently co-editing a volume of essays entitled Reading the Early Modern Passions: A Cultural History of Emotion, University of Pennsylvania Press (forthcoming).