Performing Race and Torture on the Early Modern Stage
by Ayanna Thompson, Ayanna Thompson · 2008
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.
English drama, history and criticism, 17th centuryRace in literaturePhilosophy in literatureEnglish dramaHistory and criticismTorture in literatureOther (Philosophy) in literatureOther minds (Theory of knowledge) in literatureThéâtre anglaisHistoire et critiqueRace dans la littératureTorture dans la littérature