contents
introduction
On Sitting Down to Read OthelloOnce Again 1
chapter one
Enter Barbary: The Battle of Alcazarand “the World” 21
chapter two
Imperialist Beginnings: Hakluyt’s Navigationsand the Place
and Displacement of Africa 45
chapter three
“Incorporate in Rome”: Titus Andronicusand the
Consequence of Conquest 65
chapter four
Too Many Blackamoors: Deportation, Discrimination, and Elizabeth I 100
chapter five
Banishing “all the Moors”: Lust’s Dominionand the Story of Spain 118
chapter six
Cultural Traffic: The History and Description of Africa
and the Unmooring of the Moor 138
chapter seven
The “stranger of here and everywhere”: Othelloand the Moor of Venice 155