Speaking of the Moor : From "Alcazar" to "Othello"

union of Europe and Africa, Claribel and the Tunisian king, has promised a “prosperous “return” ( 2. 1. 72 ). But if Africa is h ...

prehensibly “strange thing” ( 5. 1. 289 )—a sign of how indeterminate discrimi- natory vocabularies still were. Activity in the ...

and ideological investment in “the world,” was therefore short-lived, it was not short sighted. From AlcazartoOthello, the repre ...

notes introduction Quotations from this play are from William Shakespeare, Othello, the Moor of Venice, ed. Michael Neill (Oxfo ...

Jonathan Gil Harris, “Rematerializing Shakespeare’s Intertheatricality: The Occidental/Oriental Palimpsest,” 19 , from a forthc ...

Edward Said, Orientalism(New York: Vintage Books, 1978 ). Elliot H. Tokson, The Popular Image of the Black Man in English Drama ...

essay, “Surverying ‘race’ in Shakespeare,” provides a particularly useful overview of early modern race studies. 40. Pivotal to ...

Harris, Sick Economies: Drama, Mercantilism, and Disease in Shakespeare’s England (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Pre ...

tinental phases of British relations with the peoples of Europe” on the grounds that those negotiations comprise a separate and ...

See especially Karen Ordahl Kupperman, Indians and English: Facing Off in Early America(Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, ...

Munday’s The English Romayne Lyfe( 1582 ), the chapbook The Famous History of Stout Stuk- ley: or, His valiant Life and Death( 1 ...

Myra Jehlen, “History Before the Fact; or, Captain John Smith’s Unfinished Sym- phony,” Critical Inquiry 19 , no. 4 (Summer 199 ...

Yoklavich, 350 ; D’Amico, 82. Barroll, “Mythologizing the Ottoman,” 128. I am grateful to Linda Woodbridge for calling my atten ...

( 56 ).Alcazarmakes explicit reference to Tamburlaine. Muly Mahamet not only imagines the Turkish bassa as Tamburline, as I have ...

which is reprinted in Europeans in West Africa, 1450–1560, trans. and ed. John William Blake, vol. 1 ( 1942 ; Nendeln/Liechtenst ...

Andrews, Trade, Plunder and Settlement, 104 ; and Williamson, Sir John Hawkins: The Time and the Man(Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1 ...

Williamson, Short History, 53 ; and Andrews, 87 – 100. See Hakluyt, 6 : 23 – 27 ; 6 : 31 – 34 ; and 6 : 295 – 348. See Hakluyt, ...

See especially Mary Floyd-Wilson’s discussion of Best, English Ethnicity, 8 – 11 , which also takes account of context. Compare ...

Rome; and Loomba, Shakespeare, Race, and Colonialism, who argues that Aaron and Ta- mora together are “singled out as pariahs,” ...

On The History of Herodianand its relation to the 1577 chronicle, see Liebler, who is the first to make the case. Other influen ...