Ok, I'm going to ask. When Saturninus says that Tamora is "A goodly lady, trust me, of the hue/That I would choose were I to choose anew" (1.1.265-6) does he mean white? I have never read that as white. Whiteness is usually not a hue, is it? It's a lily or something. #ShakeRace
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Vastauksena käyttäjälle @CristinaLAlfar
Yes, see Francesca Royster's brilliant article "White Limed Walls: Whiteness and Gothic Extremism in Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus" in SQ, 2000.
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Vastauksena käyttäjälle @DrDadabhoy
Yes, it is a great article. But there is a sense in the play in which the Goths are other (conquered in war, presented as gifts to the emperor) and "hue" at least to me feels more ambiguous than white.
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It would be whiter than Roman whiteness, which is the point that Royster is making, I think. We need to interrogate how we reconstruct the whiteness of Rome, which was after all Mediterranean and influenced by centuries of cross cultural contact with Africa.
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