Performing Race and Torture on the Early Modern StageAyanna Thompson

Performing Race and Torture on the Early Modern Stage

Name: Performing Race and Torture on the Early Modern Stage
ISBN: 9780415957212

Ayanna Thompson, Ayanna Thompson · 2008

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Reading Restoration plays through a performance theory lens shows that an analysis of the conjoined performances of torture and race not only reveals the early modern interest in the nature of racial identity, but also how race was initially coded in a paradoxical fashion as both essentially fixed and socially constructed.