Speaking of the Moor: from Alcazar to Othello

On sitting down to read Othello once again

Enter Barbary: The battle of Alcazar and 'the World'

Imperialist beginnings: Hakluyt's Navigations and the place and displacement of Africa

'Incorporate in Rome': Titus Andronicus and the consequence of conquest

Too many blackamoors: deportation, discrimination, and Elizabeth I

Banishing 'all the Moors': Lust's dominion and the story of Spain

Cultural traffic: The history and description of Africa and the unmooring of the Moor

The 'stranger of here and everywhere': Othello and the Moor of Venice.