Bad Blood : : Staging Race Between Early Modern England and Spain / / Emily Weissbourd.

Bad Blood explores representations of race in early modern English and Spanish literature, especially drama. It addresses two different forms of racial ideology: one concerned with racialized religious difference—that is, the notion of having Jewish or Muslim “blood”—and one concerned with Blackness...

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Place / Publishing House:Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2023]
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Year of Publication:2023
Language:English
Series:RaceB4Race: Critical Race Studies of the Premodern
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Physical Description:1 online resource (224 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • Introduction. Race and the Idea of Spain in Early Modern English Studies
  • Chapter 1. “Pure Blood . . . Doesn’t Cost a Thing”: Performing Purity of Blood
  • Chapter 2. Translating Spain: Purity of Blood and Orientalism in Mabbe’s Rogue and The Spanish Gypsy
  • Chapter 3. Blackness, Slavery, and Service in the Comedia
  • Chapter 4. “I Have Done the State Some Service”: Moorishness and Slavery on the English Stage
  • Chapter 5. Staging the “Unrepresentable”: Blackness, Blood, and Marriage in England and Spain
  • Conclusion. Beyond English Whiteness / Another Idea of Spain
  • Appendix 1. Survey of Black and Moorish Characters in English Plays
  • Appendix 2. Further Details on Black and Moorish Characters
  • NOTES
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • INDEX
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS