Speaking of the Moor: From Alcazar to OthelloUniversity of Pennsylvania Press, 2008 - 252 pagini 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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... European cultures . And if his dark - skinned presence calls into being discrete and discriminatory inscriptions of history , race , and ethnicity , segregating Europe from other cultures ( or rather , other cultures from Eu- rope ) ...
... Europeans , no more or less likely a match for the wealthy Portia than they.12 In the final episode of Thomas Heywood's Fair Maid of the West , Part I ( 1600-1603 ) , Mullisheg , the Moorish king of Fez , provides the material and ...
... Europe . The very Moor who wrote The History ( " John Leo Africanus " ) did so from Rome , after being baptized by ... Europeans come to Morocco to further their political fortunes ( as is the case in Alcazar ) or Moors appear in Europe ...
... Europe , reaching only the seas around Portugal and Venice . Selimus , Emperor of the East ( 1594 ) recycles significant ... European culture . Where the " renowned Turke " Bursor is a bombastic Muslim crusader determined to stain " the ...
... Europe and which , by involving Europe , bring the pres- ence of diversity poignantly home . For representations of the Moor , which I want to unfold here in all their particulars , are not bounded by any set or sin- gle racial ...
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Enter Barbary The Battle of Alcazar and the World | 21 |
Imperialist Beginnings Hakluyts Navigations and the Place and Displacement of Africa | 45 |
Incorporate in Rome Titus Andronicus and the Consequence of Conquest | 65 |
Too Many Blackamoors Deportation Discrimination and Elizabeth I | 100 |
Banishing all the Moors Lusts Dominion and the Story of Spain | 118 |
Cultural Traffic The History and Description of Africa and the Unmooring of the Moor | 138 |
The stranger of here and everywhere Othello and the Moor of Venice | 155 |
A Brave New World | 191 |
NOTES | 195 |
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS | 251 |
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