Race, ethnicity, and power in the Renaissance / edited by Joyce Green MacDonald.

Other author MacDonald, Joyce Green.
Format Book
Publication InfoMadison, N.J. : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press ; London ; Cranbury, NJ : Associated University Presses, ©1997.
Description187 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Subjects
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Political and social views.
English drama--Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600. --History and criticism.
Race in literature.
Literature and society--England. --History. --16th century.
Literature and society--England. --History. --17th century.
English drama--17th century. --History and criticism.
Power (Social sciences) in literature.
Ethnic groups in literature.
Ethnicity in literature.
Renaissance--England.

Contents Bearbaiting, dominion, and colonialism / Rebecca Ann Bach -- Merchants and miscegenation: The three ladies of London, The Jew of Malta and The merchant of Venice / Daryl W. Palmer -- The rhetoric of exclusion: Jew, Moor, and the boundaries of discourse in The merchant of Venice / Alan Rosen -- Erasing the east from Twelfth night / Constance C. Relihan -- Claribel's husband / Marjorie Raley -- "Troubling doubles": apes, Africans, and blackface in Mr. Moore's revels / Kim F. Hall -- Antiquity and degeneration in Antony and Cleopatra / John Michael Archer -- The construction of barbarism in Titus Andronicus / Virginia Mason Vaughan.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 96014655
ISBN083863656X (alk. paper)