ing Africa and Africans to its edge, in Titusthere are no boundaries, no
illusions of cultural purity or superiority—and no possibility of effacing the
Moor’s place in the story. For in that play, the Moor’s history appears integral
to Europe’s. And if Titusgives persuasive cause for a policy and ideology of
discrimination, it does so after the fact and in the face of the Moor’s indelible
presence within the founding narratives of the Roman, and so English, state.
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