Bad Blood: Staging Race Between Early Modern England and Spain

by Emily Weissbourd

Bad Blood explores representations of race in early modern English and Spanish literature, especially drama. It addresses two different forms of racial ideology: one concerned with racialized religious difference--that is, the notion of having Jewish or Muslim "blood"--and one concerned with Blackness and whiteness. Shakespeare's Othello tells us that he was "sold to slavery" in his youth, a phrase that evokes the Atlantic triangle trade for readers...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1512822906
• ISBN13: 9781512822908
• Release Date: April 2023
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 9.0" x 6.1"