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Performing Blackness on English Stages, 1500–1800 Vaughan, Virginia Mason (Clark University, Massachusetts)
Performing Blackness on English Stages, 1500–1800
Vaughan, Virginia Mason (Clark University, Massachusetts)
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.
208 pages, 10 b/w illus.
| Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
| Released | November 24, 2008 |
| ISBN13 | 9780521102261 |
| Publishers | Cambridge University Press |
| Pages | 208 |
| Dimensions | 228 × 151 × 16 mm · 324 g |
| Language | English |