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Imperial Concerns in Early Modern Drama: Anti-Imperialism and Race offers a compelling reassessment of how major Renaissance playwrights, including William Shakespeare, engaged with early discourses of empire. Challenging narratives that align early modern drama with emergent imperial ambitions, this book argues that these dramatists approached calls for British expansion into the Americas with deep skepticism. Through representations of established imperial powers such as Rome, the Ottoman Empire, and the Spanish Mediterranean, the plays expose the moral, political, and structural failures of empire. At the same time, this volume confronts the enduring presence of racial hierarchies in these works, contending that any robust anti-imperial reading must also grapple with the plays' complicity in white supremacist thought. This text positions early modern drama as a critical site for interrogating the entangled legacies of imperialism and racism—both then and now.
Contents
Introduction: Skepticism Over Empire
Mediterranean Anti-Imperialism
Contingency and Possibility
Empires and Inefficacies
Rome Out of Time
Aeneas, King of Carthage
Jonson's Renaissance Romans
Shakespeare, Nobility, and Missed Opportunities
Reconsidering Empire
Fletcherian Imperialism
The Un-Spanish Mediterranean
Spaniards, Maltese, and Jews
Shakespeare's Italianate Islands
Sometime Milan
Troubles in the Homeland
Delegation in the Eastern Mediterranean
Malta Unconquered
Venice and All That
Tamburlaine Undefeated
The Mediterranean and the Atlantic
The Turk Play, or Other Ottomans
Conclusion: Racism, White Supremacy, and the Logic of Empire
Blackness, Whiteness, and Badness
Islamophobia in Absentia
Anti-Semitism Then and Now
(Anti)-Imperial Racism
