1st Edition

Imperial Concerns in Early Modern Drama Anti-Imperialism and Race

By Philip Goldfarb Styrt Copyright 2027
192 Pages
by Routledge

Imperial Concerns in Early Modern Drama: Anti-Imperialism and Race offers a compelling reassessment of how major Renaissance playwrights, including William Shakespeare, engaged with early discourses of empire. Challenging narratives that align early modern drama with emergent imperial ambitions, this book argues that these dramatists approached calls for British expansion into the Americas with... Read more

Introduction: Skepticism Over Empire

Mediterranean Anti-Imperialism

Contingency and Possibility

Empires and Inefficacies

Rome Out of Time

Aeneas, King of Carthage

Jonson’s Renaissance Romans

Shakespeare, Nobility, and Missed Opportunities

Reconsidering Empire

Fletcherian Imperialism

The Un-Spanish Mediterranean

Spaniards, Maltese, and Jews

Shakespeare’s Italianate Islands

Sometime Milan

Troubles in the Homeland

Delegation in the Eastern Mediterranean

Malta Unconquered

Venice and All That

Tamburlaine Undefeated

The Mediterranean and the Atlantic

The Turk Play, or Other Ottomans

Conclusion: Racism, White Supremacy, and the Logic of Empire

Blackness, Whiteness, and Badness

Islamophobia in Absentia

Anti-Semitism Then and Now

(Anti)-Imperial Racism

Biography

Philip Goldfarb Styrt is an Assistant Professor of English at St. Ambrose University in Davenport, IA.