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

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  1. Davis, 260 , 228 , 230 , 107.

  2. Davis, 5 , 160 ; see also 3 – 10.

  3. From Yeats’s letters, quoted in Hennessey, 1021.

  4. Zhiri, 260 ; see also “Leo Africanus, Translated and Betrayed,” in The Politics of
    Translation in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, ed. Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski et al.
    (Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press, 2001 ), 161 – 74.

  5. Pory also adds “A relation touching the state of Christian Religion in the dominions
    ofPrete Ianni, taken out of an oration of Matthew Dresserus, professour of the Greeke and
    Latine toongs, and of Histories, in the Vniuversitie of Lipsía” ( 1030 – 47 ) and an account of an
    admittedly ineffective “ambassage sent from Pope Paule the fourth toClaudiusthe Emper-
    our of Abassia... for planting of the religion and ceremonies of the church of Rome in his
    dominions” ( 1048 – 63 ).

  6. Burton, Traffic and Turning, 234.

  7. On the naming of the continent, see Davis, 125 – 26.

  8. Robert Brown challenges Africanus’s time-line; see 838 , n. 1.

  9. For other examples of places named by outsiders, see Africanus, 129 , 133.

  10. See Africanus, 162 – 65.

  11. For example, see Africanus, 156 – 60 , 165 , 182 , 184 , 271 , 274 , 298 , 317 , 484.

  12. For the full incident, see Africanus, 170 – 72.

  13. For instances of the Portuguese presence, see Africanus, 287 , 288 , 289 , 291 , 294 , 397 ,
    513 ; on the Spanish presence, see 518 – 19 , 533 – 34. See Davis, 20 , on the cultural mix of Fez.

  14. Other references to Jewish populations include Africanus, 290 , 318 , 477 ; see also
    181 , discussed below.

  15. For this section, see Pory, 24 – 102.

  16. For additional instances of outsiders settled in the region, see Pory, 52 – 54 , 59 , 65.

  17. For other mention of Negro traders, see also Africanus, 283.

  18. On the exchange of cloth, see Africanus, 822 ; on the appearance of Barbary mer-
    chants in areas outside Barbary, see also Africanus, 283 , 735 , 783 , 820 , 824 , 826 , 827.

  19. See, for example, Africanus, 230 , 283 , along with the instances below.

  20. Davis, 119.

  21. On the intersection of trade and syphilis, see Harris, Sick Economies, 29 – 51. See
    also Greg W. Bentley, Shakespeare and the New Disease: The Dramatic Function of Syphilis
    inTroilus and Cressida,Measure for Measure, and Timon of Athens (New York: Peter
    Lang, 1989 ).

  22. Davis, 135 – 36.

  23. The founder of Fez, one “Idris,” was himself the offspring of a prominent Mauri-
    tania and his maid, Africanus notes, a slave who “had beene turned from the Gothes reli-
    gion to the Moores” (Africanus, 417 ).

  24. Karen Kupperman has emphasized the evangelical edge of the Jamestown colony,
    and brought my attention to Pory’s role in it, in her paper “Why Jamestown Matters,” de-
    livered at the McNeil Center, University of Pennsylvania, June 29 , 2006.

  25. See, for example, Loomba, Shakespeare, Race, and Colonialism, 107 ; Matar, Turks,
    Moors, and Englishmen, 127 ; and Vitkus, Turning Turk, 90.


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