Racism and early blackface comic traditions : from the old world to the new /

This book traces blackface types from ancient masks of grinning Africans and phallus-bearing Roman fools through to comedic medieval devils, the pan-European black-masked Titivillus and Harlequin, and racial impersonation via stereotypical 'black speech' explored in the Renaissance by Lope...

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Main Author: Hornback, Robert (Author)
Corporate Authors: Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund, Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2018]
Series:Palgrave studies in theatre and performance history
Palgrave studies in theatre and performance history
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