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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Vastauksena käyttäjille @CristinaLAlfar ja @DrDadabhoy
I see it as perhaps a deliberate shift? Aaron & the Goths’ darkness/paleness = “savages” on the geographical edges of the Roman empire; Saturninus’ use of “hue” acknowledges her as Other and then rewrites the meaning of her color as beauty/suitability as a Roman empress (1/3)
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Now power stems from white supremacy, not Roman-ness; comparison to Lavinia (“choose anew”) pulls Goths into inner circle (access Aaron & their child will never have, his “Roman letters” suggesting desire for revenge against whole empire) while pushing the Andronici out (2/3)
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[Full disclosure: I *believe* I’ve read Royster’s article but it would have been a long time ago & I can't recall the particulars; some/much of this could be coming from her, not trying to pass it off as my own] (3/3)
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I think this is part of her argument.
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