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Genre/Form: | Criticism, interpretation, etc |
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Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Anthony Gerard Barthelemy |
ISBN: | 080711331X 9780807113318 0807124850 9780807124857 |
OCLC Number: | 14967340 |
Description: | xi, 215 pages ; 24 cm |
Contents: | Satan's livery : Blackness and the western tradition -- Beauty's beasts : Blacks in the court masque -- Words of the sponsors : Blacks in Lord Mayors' Pageants -- Princes of darkness : Black villains on the mimetic stage -- Ethiops washed white : Moors of the nonvillainous type -- White men burdened : White Moors on the English stage. |
Responsibility: | Anthony Gerard Barthelemy. |
Abstract:
Considers the influence of English political, social, and theatrical history on the depiction of black characters on the English stage from 1589 to 1695. Anthony Barthelemy shows that almost without exception blackness was associated with treachery, evil, and ugliness.
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