Speaking of the Moor - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Speaking of the Moor write by Emily C. Bartels. This book was released on 2010-08-03. Speaking of the Moor available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Speaking of the Moor: from Alcazar to Othello
Speaking of the Moor: from Alcazar to Othello - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Speaking of the Moor: from Alcazar to Othello write by Emily Bartels. This book was released on 2008. Speaking of the Moor: from Alcazar to Othello available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Speaking of the Moor" explores why the Moor became a central character on the English stage at the turn of the sixteenth century. Looking closely at key early modern dramatic and historical texts, the book uncovers the Moor's complex identity as a Mediterranean figure poised provocatively between European and non-European worlds.
Othello
Othello - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Othello write by William Shakespeare. This book was released on 2018-04-05. Othello available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The third New Cambridge edition of Shakespeare's Othello, updated by Christina Luckyj for the contemporary student reader.
Members of His Body
Members of His Body - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Members of His Body write by Will Stockton. This book was released on 2017-05-01. Members of His Body available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Building on scholarship regarding both biblical and early modern sexualities, Members of His Body protests the Christian defense of marital monogamy. According to the Paul who authors 1 Corinthians, believers would do well to remain single and focus instead on the messiah’s return. According to the Paul who authors Ephesians, plural marriage is the telos of Christian community. Turning to Shakespeare, Will Stockton shows how marriage functions in The Comedy of Errors, The Merchant of Venice, Othello, and The Winter’s Tale as a contested vehicle of Christian embodiment. Juxtaposing the marital theologies of the different Pauls and their later interpreters, Stockton reveals how these plays explore the racial, religious, and gender criteria for marital membership in the body of Christ. These plays further suggest that marital jealousy and paranoia about adultery result in part from a Christian theology of shared embodiment: the communion of believers in Christ. In the wake of recent arguments that expanding marriage rights to gay people will open the door to the cultural acceptance and legalization of plural marriage, Members of His Body reminds us that much Christian theology already looks forward to this end.
Anthropocene Theater and the Shakespearean Stage
Anthropocene Theater and the Shakespearean Stage - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Anthropocene Theater and the Shakespearean Stage write by William H. Steffen. This book was released on 2023-02-20. Anthropocene Theater and the Shakespearean Stage available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Anthropocene Theater and the Shakespearean Stage revises the anthropocentric narrative of early globalization from the perspective of the non-human world in order to demonstrate Nature's agency in determining ecological, economic, and colonial outcomes. It welcomes readers to reimagine theater history in broader terms, and to account for more non-human and atmospheric players in the otherwise anthropocentric history of Shakespearean performance. This book analyses plays, horticultural manuals, cosmetic recipes, Puritan polemics, and travel writing in order to demonstrate how the material practices of the stage both catalyze and resist early forms of globalization in an ecological arena. William Steffen addresses the role of an understudied ecological performance history in determining Shakespeare's iconic cultural status, and models how non-human players have undermined Shakespeare's authoritative role in colonial discourse. Finally, this book makes a celebratory argument for the humanities in the age of climate change, and invites interdisciplinary engagement a research community that is compelled to find strategies for cultivating a hopeful tomorrow amidst unprecedented anthropogenic environmental changes.
