Carol Mejia LaPerle

Wright State University
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Shakespeare's tragedies and the construction of difference

Shakespeare's tragedies and the construction of difference

Carol Mejia LaPerle offers three interpretive questions to introduce the ways in which early modern frameworks scaffold modes of racialization.

The smells of The Tempest

The smells of The Tempest

How does the attribution of malodorousness in The Tempest reflect the kind of judgements underpinning prejudice—the judgement that decides who does, and who does not, belong?