1st Edition
Shakespeare and the Cultivation of Difference Race and Conduct in the Early Modern World
CONTENTS
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
INTRODUCTION 1
CHAPTER 1 Othello, Blackness and the Process of Marking X
CHAPTER 2 "Bruised with Adversity": Race and the Slave/Servant
Body in The Comedy of Errors X
CHAPTER 3 "Hard-Handed Men’: Manual Labor and Imaginative
Capacity in A Midsummer Night’s Dream X
CHAPTER 4 "Fill Our Skins with Pinches": Cultivating
the Colonial Body in The Tempest X
CODA Pedestrian Check X
BIBLIOGRAPHY X
Biography
Patricia Akhimie is Assistant Professor of English at Rutgers University-Newark. She is co-editor of Travel and Travail: Early Modern Women, English Drama, and the Wider World (University of Nebraska Press), with Bernadette Andrea. Her research has been supported by the Ford Foundation, the John Carter Brown Library, and the National Sporting Library.
"Richly embedded in the historical discourses of conduct, from ars apodemica to angling, and brilliantly attuned to the legacy of indelible difference in the political present, Shakespeare and the Cultivation of Difference is a book that will shake up the ¿eld."
- Professor Ellen MacKay, Recent Studies in Tudor and Stuart Drama
