English Ethnicity and Race in Early Modern Drama

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List of illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction: the marginal English Part I. Climatic Culture: The Transmissions and Transmutations of Ethnographic Knowlege: 1. The ghost of Hippocrates: geohumoral history in the West 2. British ethnology 3. An inside story of race: melancholy and ethnology Part II. The English Ethnographic Theatre: 4. Tamburlaine and the staging of white barbarity 5. Temperature and temperance in Ben Jonson's The Masque of Blackness 6. Othello's jealousy 7. Cymbeline's angels Notes Index.