Ashley Thorpe

Allan Marett

Carrie J. Preston

Arthur Little

Deborah Brevoort

Jannette Cheong

Greg Giovanni

Discover Japanese culture and one of the world's oldest performance artforms in an exhilarating new way: through English-language noh theatre.

Texts and Analyses of English-language Noh

Intercultural Japanese Noh Theatre

Elizabeth Von Arnim

The novel records the interesting experiences and adventures of an egotistical German baron—one Otto Ortringel—and his pretty young wife, in company with a party of Anglicized cousins and their English friends, caravaning gypsy-fashion through the highroads of Kent and Sussex. The description of the pains and pleasures of civilized nomadic life is excellent and the dialogue crisp and amusing. As a study in contrasting national types of individuals, "Caravaners" carries a secondary interest quite apart from its intention as fiction. -Review of Reviews, Volume 42

The Caravaners

This book takes Shakespeare’s plays as a site for studying the specter of interracial sex—of a “jungle fever”—in early modern England’s envisionings of itself. Shakespeare’s works here assume the status of interrogating, of re-envisioning, rather than simply restaging the scene of a horrific sexual encounter. The author argues that early modern England’s national-imperial aesthetic, notably its evocation of classicism, relies significantly on a textual and cultural manipulation of race. Nowhere is this more apparent and popularly accessible than in the period’s drama and in sacrificial rape stories, narratives in which a raped white woman kills herself not only to reclaim her lost virginity but also to claim or reclaim her racial whiteness. Not surprisingly, the desire to affirm the sacrificially raped woman as white necessitates the inclusion of black male bodies in these stories. This inclusion is made all the more conspicuous by the fact that there are no known historical accounts of a black man raping a white woman in early modern England. Why, then, the obsession with “jungle fever”? The answer, the author argues, is to be found in the creation of a rhetoric of masculinity and whiteness in England’s shaping of its national and imperial ambitions. He anchors his claims by focusing on a variety of classical and early modern sites—Rome, Venice, Ireland, Africa, and Egypt—and by examining a range of sources, including dramatic texts, narrative poems, paintings and other illustrations, medical lore, and geographies. Through close studies of Titus Andronicus, Othello, and Antony and Cleopatra, this book deepens our understanding of race (then and now) as well as the role granted Shakespeare in cultural discourses past and present.

National-Imperial Re-Visions of Race, Rape, and Sacrifice

Shakespeare Jungle Fever

Arthur Little

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