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

relieve the English suffering at home; and just as he did so “at his own cost and charges,” so implicitly should they. The queen ...

also without a blessed soul. For the moment, that incrimination comes by implication only—in part because the document puts such ...

114 chapter four obstinately refuse, we pray you then to certify their names unto us, to the end Her Majesty may take such furth ...

Too Many Blackamoors 115 in their possession and hire their countrymen. National allegiance takes precedence over Christian duty ...

an infidelity that no one could see literally and so would see figuratively. Hence, while nation (in lieu of Christianity) becom ...

Elizabeth’s open letters a subtle change in attitudes toward the accommoda- tion as well as the alienation of a black population ...

chapter five Banishing “all the Moors” Lust’s Dominionand the Story of Spain While Elizabeth wasscripting proposals to delineate ...

written by Thomas Dekker, probably in collaboration with other playwrights, was not published until 1657 , a reference to The Sp ...

Europe, do what it may to draw him in, in Lust’s Dominionthese two trajec- tories collapse into each other. For here as the raci ...

brother, Fernando, has become king and Cardinal Mendoza has become the Protector, in a succession that departs radically from th ...

promising Mendoza, who lusts after her, that she will “reward” his “love” ( 2. 1. 788 – 90 ) and Eleazar, that she will kill Men ...

them of “draw[ing] the treasury dry” with “the idle triumphs, masques, lasciv- ious shows / And prodigal gifts bestowed on Gaves ...

blur together here. In the end, the play condemns the nobles—and particu- larly the Younger Mortimer—for displacing the demarcat ...

boundaries of banishment and makes a legal separation between the Moor and the Spanish seem implausible if not also impossible. ...

response, he appeals to her national pride, adding station to ethnicity and color and promising that “in pride Mariashall throug ...

warn Maria that the Queen Mother will kill her, as indeed she does, “think- ing her own son is done to death” and hoping “to be ...

within Europe derives from a history of conquest. As the Queen Mother tells it, the “deceast King,” Philip (II), “made warr in B ...

ish queen of ruining his reputation with her lust—of “arm[ing]” the “many headed beast” of Spanish street talk and fueling Spain ...

Moor, they will then “spurn me down” ( 1. 4. 593 – 94 ). In addition, the dying King Philip receives Eleazar as “Don Alvero’sson ...

what is even more remarkable is that he can make his dream come true by re- constructing the terms of Spanish identity and Spani ...