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

bly fed / Of that self blood that first gave life to you, / And from that womb where you imprisoned were / He is enfranchised an ...

ilarly preoccupied with the fact that while the baby lives, “our mother is for ever shamed” ( 4. 2. 114 ). Similarly, the attend ...

he puts the burden of wrong on Tamora, that “most insatiate and luxurious woman,” denouncing her for choosing the Moor, not Aaro ...

Who indeed. Though Saturninus seems to be the obvious answer, his em- brace of Tamora and unleashing of Aaron, the obvious offen ...

130 , 128 ). Significantly, Marcus changes the terms, now and only now bring- ing forth Aaron and his offspring as a potent visu ...

piety,” and Aaron has accused Lucius of observing “popish tricks and cere- monies” ( 5. 1. 76 ), anachronistically calling up th ...

mon voice,” Lucius, it seems, does. Laying down the law, he sentences the Moor to a “direful slaughtering death,” outdoing the “ ...

if it were not a sign of the Gothic queen’s adultery, or how Lucius and Mar- cus would react to the Moor were they not staging a ...

chapter four Too Many Blackamoors Deportation, Discrimination, and Elizabeth I In the samedecade that Tituswas bringing to cente ...

had a long history of taxing, regulating, or otherwise restricting resident for- eigners whenever it was politically or economic ...

gious, and natural discourses—none existing in isolation and only some orig- inally engineered to produce the national or racial ...

misleading, even with qualification (“in so far as”) of the sort that Fryer of- fers, since (as Fryer also admits) Elizabeth nev ...

fall to idlenesse and to great extremytie. Her Majesty’s pleasure therefore ys that those kinde of people should be sent forth o ...

then “the Rancheria, and the towne of Rio de la Hacha were burnt cleane downe to the ground, the Churches and a Ladies house one ...

a fair challenge.^32 Even in its afterlife, “this last voyage of Sir Thomas Baskerville” does not appear to have been England’s ...

narrators survey pointedly.^42 Another account notes that “Negroes,” along with “a few Spaniards” and “Indians,” aimed “some 30 ...

Spain and carried Spanish prisoners back.”^51 Moreover, she assures “any man that holdeth any prisoners for ransom” that coopera ...

in this realme and to transport them into Spaine and Portugall. Her Majesty in regard of the charitable affection the suppliant ...

indication that they were enslaved, since medieval forms of slavery had been abolished from England and most of Europe by the si ...

Ideologically, the exchange actually challenges the national and racial boundaries Elizabeth invokes in its defense. While she p ...