Awards

• Short-listed for Shortlisted for the Shakespeare’s Globe Book Award 2023 (United States)
• Winner of Winner of the David Bevington Award, granted by the Medieval & Renaissance Drama Society 2023 (United States)
• Winner of Winner of the George Freedley Memorial Award, granted by Theatre Library Association 2023 (United States)
• Winner of Winner of the Rose Mary Crawshay Prize, granted by The British Academy 2023 (United States)
• Winner of Winner of the Shakespeare’s Globe Book Award 2023 (United States)

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9781512822632

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Studies of blackface performance in the early modern world have focused mostly on English plays, masques, and pageants. As Noemie Ndiaye convincingly demonstrates, those performances did not exist in isolation, and the early modern formation of blackness as a racial category was a transnational European endeavor. Scripts of Blackness is original in that it goes beyond the cosmetics and prosthetics of blackface to consider the ways black characters were made to speak and to move.-- Virginia Mason Vaughan, Clark University This is the first study to my knowledge that puts English, French, and Spanish early modern literatures in conversation with each other through a comparatist method that discusses the history of the African diaspora in each country's colonial development. Noemie Ndiaye's scholarship is the soundest I have seen on the topic of early modern race theory.-- Baltasar Fra-Molinero, Bates College

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Noémie Ndiaye is Associate Professor of English at the University of Chicago.

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