Abstract
Richard Brome’s The English Moor (1631) features an Englishwoman in blackface who, in an exchange with a lustful pursuer desiring to “clap [her] Barbary buttock,” imitates African speech as a form of debased English.
Nathaniel: Why, why, pish-pox I love thee. Millicent: O no de fine white Zentilmanna Cannot a love a the black a thing a. Nathaniel: Cadzooks the best of all wench. Millicent: O take-a heed-a my master see-a. Nathaniel: When we are alone, then wilt thou. Millicent: Then I shall speak a more a. Nathaniel: And He not lose the Moor-a for more then I Will speak-a. (4.3; 61)
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Smith, I. (2009). Barbarian Genealogies. In: Race and Rhetoric in the Renaissance. Early Modern Cultural Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230102064_4
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