Investigates the racialization of women’s bodies in early modern anglophone dramas. The book takes on a series of case studies—such as Shakespeare’s Anthony and Cleopatra, Aphra Behn’s Oroonoko, and Katherine Phillips’s Pompey—to explore twinned phenomena: the historical invisibilization of racialized non-white bodies in early modern dramas, and the techniques by which those same bodies might be recovered and centered. The work intervenes in discussions within the study of Shakespeare, gender theory, and performance studies.