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