Racism and Early Blackface Comic Traditions

Robert Hornback

Springer Nature Switzerland AG, 2018

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This book traces blackface types from ancient masks of grinning Africans and phallus-bearing Roman fools through to comedic medieval devils, the pan-European black-masked Titivillus and Harlequin, and racial impersonation via stereotypical 'black speech' explored in the Renaissance by Lope de Vega and Shakespeare.

ISBN-13
9783030086084
ISBN-10
3030086089
Publisher
Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Year
2018
Publication date
2018-12-22
Pages
324
Dimensions
146x208x24
Weight
430