Performing Blackness on English Stages, 1500–1800

Virginia Mason (Clark University, Massachusetts) Vaughan

Cambridge University Press, 2008

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Performing Blackness on English Stages, 1500–1800 examines the dynamics of blackface performance by English actors from the cycle plays of the early sixteenth century, through Shakespeare's Aaron and Othello, to the depiction of enslaved African princes in the eighteenth-century theatre.

ISBN-13
9780521102261
ISBN-10
052110226X
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2008
Publication date
2008-11-24
Pages
208
Dimensions
151x228x16
Weight
324