Performing Blackness on English Stages, 1500-1800 by Vaughan, Virginia Mason - 2006

Cambridge Univ Pr, 2005. Hardcover. New. new title edition. 204 pages. 9.00x6.00x1.00 inches.

New. Performing Blackness on English Stages, 1500-1800 examines early modern English actors' impersonations of black Africans. Those blackface performances established dynamic theatrical conventions that were repeated from play to play, plot to plot, congealing over time and contributing to English audiences' construction of racial difference. Vaughan discusses non-canonical plays, grouping of scenes, and characters that highlight the most important conventions - appearance, linguistic tropes, speech patterns, plot situations, the use of asides and soliloquies, and other dramatic techniques - that shaped the ways black characters were 'read' by white English audiences. In plays attended by thousands of English men and women from the sixteenth century to the end of the eighteenth, including Titus Andronicus, Othello and Oroonoko, blackface was a polyphonic signifier that disseminated distorted and contradictory, yet compelling, images of black Africans during the period in which… Read More

Hard Cover. New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; The Performing Blackness on English Stages, 1500-1800.

Cambridge University Press, 2005. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 2005 first edition hardback in fine condition. No marks, clean and bright, tight binding, flawless black cloth boards, almost like new. In its original, unclipped dust wrapper with slight rubbing to top edge, otherwise fine. A lovely copy. Items are dispatched the same or the following working day. Please note our excellent customer feedback.

Cambridge University Press CUP , pp. xiv + 190 . Hardback. New.

Cambridge University Press. hardcover. New. 6x0x9. Brand New Book in Publishers original Sealing