Bartels, Emily Carroll.

Speaking of the Moor from Alcazar to Othello / [electronic resource] : Emily C. Bartels. - Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2008. - viii, 252 p.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

On sitting down to read Othello once again -- Enter Barbary: The battle of Alcazar and 'the World' -- Imperialist beginnings: Hakluyt's Navigations and the place and displacement of Africa -- 'Incorporate in Rome': Titus Andronicus and the consequence of conquest -- Too many blackamoors: deportation, discrimination, and Elizabeth I -- Banishing 'all the Moors': Lust's dominion and the story of Spain -- Cultural traffic: The history and description of Africa and the unmooring of the Moor -- The 'stranger of here and everywhere': Othello and the Moor of Venice.


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Peele, George, 1556-1596. Battle of Alcazar.
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Othello.
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Titus Andronicus.


Lust's dominion; or, The lascivious queen.


English drama--History and criticism.--Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600
Blacks in literature.
Race in literature.


Africa--In literature.
England--Race relations--History--16th century.


Electronic books.

PR658.A4 / B37 2008

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