Reflection of Africa in Elizabethan and Jacobean drama and poetry
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Reflection of Africa in Elizabethan and Jacobean drama and poetry
(Mellen studies in literature, Elizabethan and Renaissance studies ; v. 128)
E. Mellen Press, c2002
- v. 128
- MSL/ERS series
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Graduate School of Asian and African Area Studies, Kyoto Universityアフリカ専攻
v. 128930.25||Man02025735
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Includes bibliography: p. [107]-118
Includes index
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Description
This study explores literary allusions to Africans against the background of 16th- and early 17th-century English political values - a period of rapid colonization and participation in the slave trade. It examines the lyric poetry of Sidney, Shakespeare, Daniel, Donne, Edward Herbert and Jonson, among others. Dramas include "Titus Andronicus", "A Midsummer Night's Dream", "Tamburlaine the Great", "Dr Faustus", "Masque of Blackness", "Othello", "Antony and Cleopatra" and "Oroonoko". The conclusion examines the influence on late 20th-century values.
Table of Contents
- Introduction - early-modern England Africa
- the African on the Elizabethan stage
- Elizabethan poetics of blackness
- the African on the Jacobean stage
- Jacobean poetics of blackness
- early-modern tropes of blackness.
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