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 de Vega and Shakespeare.

• | Author: Robert Hornback
• | Publisher: Springer International Publishing AG
• | Publication Date: Jul 31, 2018
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• | Binding: Hardback
• | ISBN-13: 9783319780474
• | ISBN-10: 3319780476