White-Limed Walls: Whiteness and Gothic Extremism in Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus

White-Limed Walls: Whiteness and Gothic Extremism in Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus

In William Shakespeare's "Titus Andronicus," Tamora's whiteness is racially marked, and thus it is misleading to simplify the play's racial landscape into black and white, with black as the "other." One of the play's striking features is its othering of a woma...

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Veröffentlicht in:Shakespeare quarterly 2000-12, Vol.51 (4), p.432-455
1. Verfasser: Royster, Francesca T.
Format: Artikel
Sprache:eng
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African Americans
Black people
British & Irish literature
Childbirth
Children
Drama
English literature
Infants
Literary criticism
Otherness
Race
Renaissance drama
Shakespeare plays
Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)
Skin color
Theater
White people
Whiteness studies
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Zusammenfassung:In William Shakespeare's "Titus Andronicus," Tamora's whiteness is racially marked, and thus it is misleading to simplify the play's racial landscape into black and white, with black as the "other." One of the play's striking features is its othering of a woman who is conspicuously white.
ISSN:0037-3222
1538-3555
DOI:10.2307/2902338