Race and Rhetoric in the Renaissance: Barbarian Errors (Early Modern Cultural Studies)

244 Pages·2009·2.82 MB·English

by  Ian Smith

EARLY MODERN CULTURAL STUDIES
Jean Howard and Ivo Kamps, Series Editors
PUBLISHED BY PALGRAVE MACMILLAN
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RACE AND RHETORIC IN THE RENAISSANCE
Copyright © Ian Smith, 2009.
Smith, Ian. “Barbarian Errors: Performing Race in Early Modern England.”
Shakespeare Quarterly 49:2 (1998), pp. 168–186. © 1998 Folger
Shakespeare Library. Reprinted with permission of The Johns Hopkins
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