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  • Boys Abducted

    The Homoerotics of Empire and Race in Early Modernity

    by Abdulhamit Arvas ...
    Series series Theory Q
    In Boys Abducted, Abdulhamit Arvas explores the history of abducted boys in English and Ottoman literary and visual culture to examine the relationships between homoeroticism, race, and empire in the early modern period. The popular literary trope of the abducted beautiful boy—often eroticized as an exotic object of desire—intersects with the historical phenomenon of vulnerable youths who were ... Read more

    $20.19 USD

  • England's Asian Renaissance

    by Abdulhamit Arvas, Richmond Barbour, Thea Buckley, Jennifer Feather, Nedda Mehdizadeh, Rachana Sachdev, Amrita Sen, Emily Soon ...
    Series series The Early Modern Exchange
    England's Asian Renaissance explores how Asian knowledges, narratives, and customs inflected early modern English literature. Just as Asian imports changed England's tastes and enriched the English language, Eastern themes, characters, and motifs helped shape the country's culture and contributed to its national identity. Questioning long-standing dichotomies between East and West and embracing a ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

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  • The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare and Race

    Edited by Ayanna Thompson ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare and Race shows teachers and students how and why Shakespeare and race are inseparable. Moving well beyond Othello, the collection invites the reader to understand racialized discourses, rhetoric, and performances in all of Shakespeare's plays, including the comedies and histories. Race is presented through an intersectional approach with chapters that focus ... Read more

    $28.69 USD

  • Othello's Secret

    The Cyprus Problem

    by R M Christofides ...
    Series series Shakespeare Now!
    Othello's Secret uncovers the relationship between the play and the conflicts that have torn apart its Cypriot setting, providing a new and powerfully political reading. Exploring the domestic and military anxieties connected by Shakespeare, Christofides highlights the ways in which these issues resonate with current ideological and geographical divisions in Cyprus, divisions rooted in the 16th ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Antony and Cleopatra

    New Critical Essays

    Edited by Sara M. Deats ...
    Series series Shakespeare Criticism
    Complementing other volumes in the Shakespeare Criticism Series, this collection of twenty original essays will expand the critical contexts in which Antony and Cleopatra can be enjoyed as both literature and theater. The essays will cover a wide spectrum of topics and utilize a diversity of scholarly methodologies, including textual and performance-oriented approaches, intertextual studies, as ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Performing Race and Torture on the Early Modern Stage

    by Ayanna Thompson ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture
    Performing Race and Torture on the Early Modern Stage provides the first sustained reading of Restoration plays through a performance theory lens. This approach 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 ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • Post-Colonial Shakespeares

    by Ania Loomba, Martin Orkin ...
    First published in 2002. This collection of new essays explores the multiple possibilities for the study of Shakespeare in an emerging post-colonial period. Post-Colonial Shakespeares examines the extent to which our assumption about such key terms as ‘colonization’, ‘race’ and ‘nation’ derive from early modern English culture. It also looks at how such terms are themselves affected by what were ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • The Lives of Girls and Women from the Islamic World in Early Modern British Literature and Culture

    by Bernadette Andrea ...
    Bernadette Andrea’s groundbreaking study recovers and reinterprets the lives of women from the Islamic world who travelled, with varying degrees of volition, as slaves, captives, or trailing wives to Scotland and England during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.Andrea’s thorough and insightful analysis of historical documents, visual records, and literary works focuses on five extraordinary ... Read more

    $56.99 USD

  • A Companion to the Global Renaissance

    Literature and Culture in the Era of Expansion, 1500-1700

    by Jyotsna G. Singh ...
    Series series Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture
    A COMPANION TO THE GLOBAL RENAISSANCEAn innovative collection of original essays providing an expansive picture of globalization across the early modern world, now in its second editionA Companion to the Global Renaissance: Literature and Culture in the Era of Expansion, 1500–1700, Second Edition provides readers with a deeper and more nuanced understanding of both macro and micro perspectives on ... Read more

    $183.00 USD

  • White People in Shakespeare

    Essays on Race, Culture and the Elite

    Edited by Arthur L. Little, Jr. ...
    What part did Shakespeare play in the construction of a 'white people' and how has his work been enlisted to define and bolster a white cultural and racial identity?Since the court of Queen Elizabeth I, through the early modern English theatre to the storming of the United States Capitol on 6 January 2021, white people have used Shakespeare to define their cultural and racial identity and ... Read more

    $26.49 USD

  • Anti-Black Racism in Early Modern English Drama

    The Other “Other”

    by Matthieu Chapman ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture
    This is the first book to deploy the methods and ensemble of questions from Afro-pessimism to engage and interrogate the methods of Early Modern English studies. Using contemporary Afro-pessimist theories to provide a foundation for structural analyses of race in the Early Modern Period, it engages the arguments for race as a fluid construction of human identity by addressing how race in Early ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • Post-Colonial Shakespeares

    Edited by Ania Loomba, Martin Orkin ...
    Series series New Accents
    Postcolonial Shakespeares is an exciting step forward in the dialogue between postcolonial studies and Shakespearean criticism. This unique volume features original work by some of the leading critics within the growing field of Shakespeare studies and is the most authoritative collection on this topic to date.This study explores:* the colonial and racial discourses emerging in early modern ... Read more

    $42.99 USD