#ShakeRace question: has there been a debate about what Moor means in the context of Aaron in Titus the way there is in Othello? Are Aaron’s pronouncements of blackness taken as literal? Why not Othello’s then? Asking for a friend. That friend is me.
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Vastauksena käyttäjälle @DrDadabhoy
To me, there is no doubt that both Othello and Aaron are Black, hailing from sub-Saharan Africa. The Peacham sketch is evidence for Aaron. Othello's narrative of his life would sound much more like a Black man than a middle-Eastern man to Shakespeare's audience.pic.twitter.com/YV5hilVe23
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Vastauksena käyttäjälle @_JoeStephenson_
Excellent points. I also wonder if the “debate” on Othello’s blackness isn’t motivated by C18-19 notions that Shakespeare would write a black villain but not a black hero. And then reading that back into histories of the period.
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Vastauksena käyttäjälle @DrDadabhoy
I agree. Black Villain is more “believable.” my theory is that Ohello’s blackness only became questioned/questionable with English immersion in Atlantic slave trade when blackness becomes incommensurate with nobility/stature and ideas of slavery narrow.
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