Kyle Grady on Racial Mixing in Titus Andronicus | Shakespeare, Race, and the Early Modern World

Описание: Professor Kyle Grady examines how Titus Andronicus stages racial mixing and difference through the figure of Aaron the Moor — and how the play’s anxieties about lineage, violence, and identity reveal early modern constructions of race that still reverberate today.

By focusing on Aaron’s relationship with Tamora and their child, Grady shows how Shakespeare’s tragedy dramatizes racial imagination at its most unstable — a potent site for exploring how race and belonging were made and remade on the early modern stage.

Key Moments
00:15 – Introducing Titus Andronicus as a site of racial imagination
00:44 – Aaron and Tamora: interracial intimacy and social panic
01:53 – Reading Aaron’s complexity: villainy, humanity, and racial construction
02:35 – The politics of blood and belonging in early modern England
03:18 – Why it matters today: race, visibility, and the afterlife of Shakespeare

Topics Covered
• Kyle Grady’s method: reading race and identity through close textual analysis
• Interracial relationships and the logic of purity in Titus Andronicus
• The figure of Aaron the Moor and early modern blackness
• How Shakespeare’s tragedies expose anxieties about lineage and nation
• Connecting early modern racial thinking to contemporary ideas of identity and multiculturalism

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