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

and Africke: Did not the Valiant English knight sir Hugh Willoughby; did not the famous Pilots...accoast Nova Zembla, Colgoieve, ...

the South and Southeast, which charts the evolving engagement with the East, and these accounts stand separate from the depictio ...

“[glory] in the taking of all Christendome” ( 6 : 107 – 8 ). While this emphasis on the Levant frames the materials on Africa mo ...

ish, which, though it included casualties, reached a peaceful, if not equitable, resolution. Much more problematic was, it seems ...

prefacing his account, Eden asserts that the English can only get to Africa, and so beyond it, through the Portuguese, the “Lord ...

“against his will, thrust among the boyes of the ship, not used like a man, nor yet like an honest boy” ( 6 : 151 ). His spirit ...

some of the most exotic—probably already cliched—myths and figures com- monly ascribed to Africa in classical texts (and promine ...

endpoint, where Negroes seem unusually like Indians and the status of both obscured by narrative scrutiny of the Spanish.^50 Mil ...

roste it, eating his owne fleshe by p[urposebefore h]is eyes, a terrible kinde of death. The others [in other places] doe not th ...

According to that record, disaster and disease struck almost the moment the English reached Cape Verde: there, their “General f ...

of Noah’s (here Noe’s) “wicked sonne Cham,” who “used company with his wife” on the Ark, against his father’s orders, and whose ...

thing” which may be “supplyed from some other place by sea” ( 7 : 244 – 45 ); to Queen Elizabeth’s letters patent to Ralegh, lic ...

ing Africa and Africans to its edge, in Titusthere are no boundaries, no illusions of cultural purity or superiority—and no poss ...

chapter three “Incorporate in Rome” Titus Andronicusand the Consequence of Conquest At the end ofTitus Andronicus( 1593 – 94 ), ...

Still, the anticipated torture of the Moor promises to be physically more extreme, visually more sustained, and ideologically mo ...

Peele’s hand or influence, Aaron’s characterization resembles Muly’s in appear- ing unusually stylized, potentially retrograde, ...

tan. We start with a Moor whose barbarous behavior, though it may reflect the inherent violence and defining chaos of Rome, is s ...

In the opening scene of Titus, Titus Andronicus enters fresh from war, “re- salute[s] his country with his tears” of “true joy,” ...

here, the opening act suggests, we must first see Rome for what it is: a place where the crossing of cultures is not the excepti ...

Rome,” and, in fact, “five times he hath returned / Bleeding to Rome, bearing his valiant sons / In coffins from the field” ( 1. ...