Moorish dancing in the Two Noble Kinsmen.(Forum: Race, Racism, and Performance on the Early Modern Stage)

From: Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England | Date: January 1, 2007| Author: Iyengar, Sujata | Copyright information

IN Shakespeare and Fletcher's The Two Noble Kinsmen, Gerald, a pedantic schoolmaster, badgers a dozen reluctant countrymen and women (including the crazed Jailer's Daughter as the Madwoman and a "bavian" or baboon, "with long tail and eke long tool [penis]" [3.5.131]), to perform a morris dance for the newly married Duke Theseus and his Amazon wife Hippolyta while they are out hunting. (1) The dance takes place immediately before Palamon and Arcite, the two noble kinsmen of the pla...

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