Racism and Early Blackface Comic Traditions

Robert Hornback

Springer International Publishing 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
9783319780474
ISBN-10
3319780476
Publisher
Springer International Publishing AG
Year
2018
Publication date
2018-07-31
Pages
324
Dimensions
154x218x25
Weight
570