Timūr’s theatrical journey: Or, when did Tamburlaine become black?

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Autor principal: Linda McJannet
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Publicado: Spanish and Portuguese Society for English Renaissance Studies 2016
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contents Timūr’s theatrical journey: Or, when did Tamburlaine become black? Linda McJannet Lengua y Literatura race a Tragedy Bayazid I Timūr Lenk parts I and II Reviews of modern productions of Marlowe’s Tamburlaine often note a three-hundred-year hiatus between a recorded performance in 1641, just before the closing of the theatres, and Tyrone Guthrie’s revival at the Old Vic in 1951. While the statement is mostly true with respect to Marlowe’s play, Tamerlane or Timūr Lenk and the Ottoman emperor Bayazid I (Marlowe’s Bajazeth) had important theatrical incarnations in the 1700s before they declined into parody in the 1800s. When Marlowe’s play was revived in the modern era, the main characters reclaimed their dignity, but they also acquired markers of racial, ethnic, or religious otherness that had not been prominent earlier. Timūr’s (and Bayazid’s) varied theatrical representations illustrate the malleability of iconic cultural figures, the sometimes problematic emphasis on ethnic difference in modern theatrical practice, and the challenges and opportunities of cross-racial casting. 2016 artículo científico 1135-7789 https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=333549411002 en http://www.redalyc.org/revista.oa?id=3335 SEDERI Yearbook application/pdf Spanish and Portuguese Society for English Renaissance Studies SEDERI Yearbook (España) Num.26
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spellingShingle Timūr’s theatrical journey: Or, when did Tamburlaine become black?
Linda McJannet
Lengua y Literatura
race
a Tragedy
Bayazid I
Timūr Lenk
parts I and II
Timūr’s theatrical journey: Or, when did Tamburlaine become black? Linda McJannet Lengua y Literatura race a Tragedy Bayazid I Timūr Lenk parts I and II Reviews of modern productions of Marlowe’s Tamburlaine often note a three-hundred-year hiatus between a recorded performance in 1641, just before the closing of the theatres, and Tyrone Guthrie’s revival at the Old Vic in 1951. While the statement is mostly true with respect to Marlowe’s play, Tamerlane or Timūr Lenk and the Ottoman emperor Bayazid I (Marlowe’s Bajazeth) had important theatrical incarnations in the 1700s before they declined into parody in the 1800s. When Marlowe’s play was revived in the modern era, the main characters reclaimed their dignity, but they also acquired markers of racial, ethnic, or religious otherness that had not been prominent earlier. Timūr’s (and Bayazid’s) varied theatrical representations illustrate the malleability of iconic cultural figures, the sometimes problematic emphasis on ethnic difference in modern theatrical practice, and the challenges and opportunities of cross-racial casting. 2016 artículo científico 1135-7789 https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=333549411002 en http://www.redalyc.org/revista.oa?id=3335 SEDERI Yearbook application/pdf Spanish and Portuguese Society for English Renaissance Studies SEDERI Yearbook (España) Num.26
title Timūr’s theatrical journey: Or, when did Tamburlaine become black?
topic Lengua y Literatura
race
a Tragedy
Bayazid I
Timūr Lenk
parts I and II
url https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=333549411002