( 56 ).Alcazarmakes explicit reference to Tamburlaine. Muly Mahamet not only imagines
the Turkish bassa as Tamburline, as I have mentioned above; he also echoes Tamburlaine’s
words (“Tamburlaine...must die”) to denounce the Turk ( 1. 2. 33 – 36 ), as Alcazar’s editors
generally note.
63. See Thomas Fuller, 1 : 414.
64. Catherine Belsey, The Subject of Tragedy: Identity and Difference in Renaissance
Drama(London: Methuen, 1985 ), 41 – 42.
chapter two
- This chapter is a revision of my essay “Othelloand Africa: Postcolonialism Re-
considered.” - Quotations are from William Shakespeare, Titus Andronicus, ed. Jonathan Bate,
(London: Routledge, 1995 ). - See also Richard Helgerson,Forms of Nationhood: The Elizabethan Writing of En-
gland(Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992 ), 151 – 91 , whose work makes an excellent
case for the economic underpinnings of the project. - See my essay, “Imperialist Beginnings: Richard Hakluyt and the Construction of
Africa,”Criticism 34 , no. 4 (Fall 1992 ): 517 – 38. - David Armitage, “The New World and British Historical Thought: From Richard
Hakluyt to William Robertson,” inAmerica in European Consciousness, 1493–1750, ed.
Karen Kupperman (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1995 ), 59 ; see 52 – 78.
See also Armitage, Ideological Origins; and Pagden, Lords of All the World. - From John Smith’s letter “to the Right Honourable, and Worshipfull Company of
Virginia” ( 1622 ), in Captain John Smith: A Select Edition of His Writings, ed. Karen Ordahl
Kupperman (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1988 ), 199 ; see 198 – 200.
William Strachey’s representation of Jamestown appears in “A True Reportory of the
Wrack” ( 1610 ). See also James Horn, A Land as God Made It: Jamestown and the Birth of
America(New York: Basic Books, 2005 ). - See my discussion in Chapter 1.
- On the Barbary Company and trade, see T. S. Willan, Studies in Elizabethan For-
eign Trade(New York: Barnes and Noble, 1959 ). - The Oxford English Dictionarycredits Stanley with the phrase. Scholars have sug-
gested but not, to my knowledge, documented an earlier date. See, for example, James A.
Rawley, The Transatlantic Slave Trade: A History (New York: W. W. Norton, 1981 ), 11. On
the emergence of the idea of the “dark continent,” see Patrick Brantlinger, “Victorians and
Africans: The Genealogy of the Myth of the Dark Continent,” in Gates, ed., 185 – 222. See
also Christopher L. Miller, Blank Darkness: Africanist Discourse in French(Chicago: Uni-
versity of Chicago Press, 1985 ); and Sara Blair, Henry James and the Writing of Race and Na-
tion(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996 ), 15 – 59. - C. R. Beazley, Prince Henry the Navigator(London: Hakluyt Society, 1895 ), 171.
- See, for example, the map of Africa from the Diego Homem Atlas( 1558 ), part of
notes to pages 40–47 205