Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. Introduction. Race and the Idea of Spain in Early Modern English Studies 1
4. Chapter 1. “Pure Blood . . . Doesn’t Cost a Thing”: Performing Purity of Blood 17
5. Chapter 2. Translating Spain: Purity of Blood and Orientalism in Mabbe’s Rogue and The Spanish Gypsy 43
6. Chapter 3. Blackness, Slavery, and Service in the Comedia 76
7. Chapter 4. “I Have Done the State Some Service”: Moorishness and Slavery on the English Stage 103
8. Chapter 5. Staging the “Unrepresentable”: Blackness, Blood, and Marriage in England and Spain 132
9. Conclusion. Beyond English Whiteness / Another Idea of Spain 152
10. Appendix 1. Survey of Black and Moorish Characters in English Plays 159
11. Appendix 2. Further Details on Black and Moorish Characters 167
12. NOTES 171
13. BIBLIOGRAPHY 197
14. INDEX 209
15. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 215