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Putting history to the question : power, politics, and society in English Renaissance drama.

General note: Includes index. Includes Shakespeare, John Fletcher and Philip Massinger. Bibliography, etc. note: Bibliography. Formatted contents note: ch. 1: Servant obedience and master sins : Shakespeare and the bonds of service -- ch. 7: . "Ampitheatres in the body" : playing with hands on the Shakespearean stage -- ch. 8: Changing places in Othello -- ch. 9: "Unproper beds" : race, adultery and the hideous in Othello -- ch. 10: "Mulatto", "Blacks", and "Indian Moors" : Othello and early modern constructions of human difference -- ch. 13: Broken English and broken Irish : nation, language and the optic of power in Shakespeare's histories ch.14: "The exact map or discovery of human affairs" : Shakespeare and the plotting of history -- ch. 15: The world beyond : Shakespeare and the tropes of translation. UK-SuSCL