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Public performances of blackness: The ‘King of Moors’ pageant in the 1616 Lord Mayor’s Show
Shakespeare and Beyond
Public performances of blackness: The ‘King of Moors’ pageant in the 1616 Lord Mayor’s Show
Elizabethan and Jacobean theatergoers encountered ‘Moor’ figures in plays such as Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus, Othello, and The Merchant of Venice, to name a few. However, it was also possible to see blackness performed beyond the playhouse stage, publicly on the…