Shakespeare and Race: Postcolonial Praxis in the Early Modern Period New Experience ; Juvenile Fiction ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1542037129

ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1542037129

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Shakespeare and Race: Postcolonial Praxis in the Early Modern Period New Experience ; Juvenile Fiction ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1542037129Shakespeare and Race is a provocative new study that reveals a connection between the subject of race in Shakespeare and the advent of early English colonialism. Citing generally neglected archival evidence, Imtiaz Habib argues that a small population of captured Indians and Africans brought to England during the 16th century provided the impetus for Elizabethan constructions of race rather than existing European traditions in which blackness was