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Article: Moorish dancing in the Two Noble Kinsmen.(Forum: Race, Racism, and Performance on the Early Modern Stage)
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- Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England
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- January 1, 2007
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IN Shakespeare and Fletcher's The Two Noble Kinsmen, Gerald, a pedantic schoolmaster, badgers a dozen reluctant countrymen and women (including the crazed Jailer's Daughter as the Madwoman and a "bavian" or baboon, "with long tail and eke long tool [penis]" [3.5.131]), to perform a morris dance for the newly married Duke Theseus and his Amazon wife Hippolyta while they are out hunting. (1) The dance takes place immediately before Palamon and Arcite, the two noble kinsmen of the play's title, fall to blows over which one will marry Emilia, Hippolyta's sister. Emilia wishes to marry neither; one of the play's many ironies is that Emilia, "bride-habited, / But ...
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