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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Bibliographic Details

Main Author:	Hornback, Robert (Author)
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Cham : Springer International Publishing, 2018.
Edition:	1st ed. 2018.
Series:	Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History
Subjects:	Theater-History. Theater. Imperialism.
ISBN:	9783319780481
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