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Article: English Ethnicity and Race in Early Modern Drama.(Book review)
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- Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England
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- January 1, 2006
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English Ethnicity and Race in Early Modern Drama, by Mary Floyd-Wilson. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Pp. xii + 256. Cloth $65.00.
Cued by Gail Kern Paster's success in her book The Body Embarrassed in reading early modern gender constructions through sixteenth- and seventeenth-century humor theory, Mary Floyd-Wilson sets out in this book to do the same for racial constructions. Drawing on a range of classical, medieval, and early modern texts--concerning what she calls ethnological geohumoralism--Floyd-Wilson contends that people from Africa and the warmer southern regions were regarded by classical and medieval writers as wise and balanced in ...
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