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

reproduced the homogeneity of Jones’s Africa, however, their emphasis on “race” and “racism” prepared the ground for a more inci ...

difference.”^44 For the first wave of critics who, like Hall, exposed the com- plexity of “race,” “blackness” was not simply (an ...

and critics now tend to treat Moors and Turks interchangeably under the um- brella of “a generalized Islamic identity.”^52 As a ...

cally on the Persian king’s incestuous manipulation of a Persian “race,” his people and his kin; and even his notably unstaged c ...

allow the material and social disenfranchisement of the Jew and require his self-abnegating conversion in The Merchant of Venice ...

panies.^64 And not only was English activity across the Mediterranean, in gen- eral, at a peak, with factors stationed prominent ...

cance differences. While we have come into a global era after New World colonialism and slavery had institutionalized racial pre ...

tury, out of a desire to unseat homogenizing assumptions of cultural differ- ence, lies in looking too far in that direction, to ...

amoors” in her realm. And it is congruently then that Moors become a fea- tured subject on the stage, in Alcazar,Titus,Lust’s Do ...

chapter one Enter Barbary The Battle of Alcazar and “the World” In the summerof 1578 , in the North African town of El-Ksar el-K ...

Anonymous tracts, namely “A Dolorous Discourse of a most terrible and bloudy Battel fought in Barbarie” ( 1579 ) and “Strange ne ...

able beginnings in England to their redemptive end at Alcazar.^10 And in the second part of If You Know Not Me, You Know Nobody( ...

*** In the decades surrounding the Moroccan crisis and the emergence of Peele’s play, Queen Elizabeth was carrying on negotiatio ...

violations of these dictates increased when saltpeter was introduced into the exchange, since Mulai Mohammed, who was in power a ...

“with such commodities as he should have need of, to furnish the necessities and wants of his countrey in trade of marchandize, ...

Queene of England and her Realme is: for I neither like of him nor of his religion, being so governed by the Inquisition that he ...

crusade against Islam. And the Spanish king, Philip II, in sending only lim- ited troops to bolster Portugal’s arguably reckless ...

*** It is no small point, and no coincidence, that the very first representation of Moors on the early modern stage takes its be ...

and England’s—interest in Alcazar as an interest in him.^34 Joseph Candido, after him, proposed Alcazar’s representation of the ...

them by vigorously condemning Muly for being “black in his look, and bloody in his deeds,” guilty of “ambitious tyranny,” “cruel ...