Abstract:This chapter considers how early modern English routines of exceptionalizing racial mixing distort more accurate understandings of how mixedness often factored in the period. Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus offers key examples of such routines, representing procreative racial mixing as a novel and foreboding matter. But mixedness did not reliably factor in the period as anywhere near as ostensibly consequential as it does in Titus. Shakespeare’s early tragedy demonstrates instead the extent to which the topic c… Show more
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