Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
This interdisciplinary study theorizes the interaction of individual performance and social space. Examining three categories of space - the urban, the theatrical, and the cartographic - this volume considers the role of performance in the production and operation of these spaces during a period in London's history defined roughly by the life of Shakespeare.
City/Stage/Globe not only organizes a selection of plays, pageants, maps, and masques in the historical and cultural contexts in which they emerged, but also uses performance theory to locate the ways in which these seemingly ephemeral events contributed to lasting change in the spatial concepts and physical topograpy of early modern London.
Synopsis
Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Chapter One
Interrogating Torture and Finding Race
Chapter Two
A Matter that is No Matter:
Religion, Color, and the White Actress in The Empress of Morocco and Xerxes
Chapter Three
When Race is Colored:
Abjection and Racial Characterization in Titus Andronicus and Oroonoko
Chapter Four
Racializing Civility:
The Indian Emperour, or The Conquest of Mexico by the Spaniards
Chapter Five
Racializing Mercantilism:
Amboyna: or, The Cruelties of the Dutch to the English Merchants
Chapter Six
Combating Historical Amnesia:
On the Images of Prisoner Abuse from Abu Ghraib
Notes
Bibliography
Index