Performing blackness on english stages, 1500–1800
Auteur :
Vaughan, Virginia Mason
Éditeur :
Cambridge University Press
ISBN :
9780521845847
Date de publication :
12 mai 2005
Dimensions :
22,9 x 15,2 x 1,6 cm
Poids :
480 g
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Grande Bretagne
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.