{"product_id":"9780816649655","title":"Barbarous Play","description":"Author: Lara Bovilsky\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9780816649655\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: University of Minnesota Press\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 27 Aug 2008\u003cbr\u003ePages: 208 \u003cbr\u003eFormat: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eExploring the similar underpinnings of early modern and contemporary ideas of difference, \u003ci\u003eBarbarous Play\u003c\/i\u003e examines English Renaissance understandings of race as depicted in drama. Reading plays by Shakespeare, Marlowe, Webster, and Middleton, Bovilsky offers case studies of how racial meanings are enerated by narratives of boundary crossingespecially miscegenation, religious conversion, class transgression, and moral and physical degeneracy. In the process, she reveals deep parallels between the period's conceptions of race and gender.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47919100428446,"sku":"ING-9780816649655","price":37.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9780816649655.jpg?v=1782807705","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9780816649655","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}