Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction: Recovering the Contexts of Early Modern Proto-Racism -- 2. Harlequin as Theatergram: Transmitting the Timeworn Black Mask, Ancient to Antebellum -- 3. Beyond Good and Evil Symbolism: Allegories and Metaphysics of Blackfaced Folly from Augustine to Fanon -- 4. From Allegorical Type and Sartorial Satire to Minstrel Dandy Stereotype, Zip Coon, Jim Crow, and Blackface-on-Black Violence -- 5. Sambo Dialects: Defining National Language Boundaries via Early Representations of Stereotypically Black Speech -- 6. Blackface in Shakespeare: Challenging Racial Allegories of Folly and Speech--Cleopatra, Caliban, Othello -- 7. Shakespeare in Blackface: Black Shakespeareans versus Minstrel Burlesques, 1821-1844, or Othello versus Otello -- 8. Conclusion: A New Theory of Pre-Modern or Proto-Racism -- 9. Afterword: White Nationalism, Trolling Humor as Propaganda, and the "Renaissance" of Christian Racism in the Age of Trump.
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Palgrave studies in theatre and performance history
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