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　　In English Ethnicity and Race in Early Modern Drama, Mary

Floyd-Wilson outlines what we might call 'scientific' conceptions

of racial and ethnic differences in sixteenth- and

seventeenth-century English writing. Drawing on classical and

contemporary medical texts, histories and cosmographies,

Floyd-Wilson demonstrates that Renaissance understandings of racial

and ethnic identities contradicted many modern stereotypes

concerning difference. Southerners, Africans, in particular, were

identified as dispassionate, cool-tempered and wise, whereas the

more northern English were understood to be unruly, impressionable

and slow-witted. Concerned with the unflattering and constraining

implications of this classically derived knowledge, English writers

laboured to reinvent ethnology to their own advantage - a labour

that paved the way for the invention of more familiar racial ideas.

Floyd-Wilson highlights these English revisionary efforts in her

surprising and transformational readings of the period's drama,

including Marlowe's Tamburlaine, Jonson's The Masque of Blackness

and Shakespeare's Othello and Cymbeline.

List of illustrations

Acknowledgements

Introduction: the marginal English

Part I. Climatic Culture: The Transmissions and Transmutations of

Ethnographic Knowlege: 1. The ghost of Hippocrates: geohumoral

history in the West

2. British ethnology

3. An inside story of race: melancholy and ethnology

Part II. The English Ethnographic Theatre: 4. Tamburlaine and the

staging of white barbarity

5. Temperature and temperance in Ben Jonson's The Masque of

Blackness

6. Othello's jealousy

7. Cymbeline's angels

Notes

Index.

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In English Ethnicity and Race in Early Modern Drama, first published in 2003, Mary Floyd-Wilson outlines what we might call 'scientific' conceptions of racial and ethnic differences in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century English writing. Drawing on classical and contemporary medical texts, histories and cosmographies, Floyd-Wilson demonstrates that Renaissance understandings of racial and ethnic identities contradicted many modern stereotypes concerning difference. Southerners, Africans, in particular, were identified as dispassionate, cool-tempered and wise, whereas the more northern English were understood to be unruly, impressionable and slow-witted. Concerned with the unflattering and constraining implications of this classically derived knowledge, English writers laboured to reinvent ethnology to their own advantage - a labour that paved the way for the invention of more familiar racial ideas. Floyd-Wilson highlights these English revisionary efforts in her surprising and transformational readings of the period's drama, including Marlowe's Tamburlaine, Jonson's The Masque of Blackness and Shakespeare's Othello and Cymbeline.