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Royster, Francesca T. “White-limed Walls: Whiteness and Early Gothic Extremism in Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus.” Shakespeare Quarterly 51, no. 4 (2000): 432-55.
This article deals with the issue of miscegenation in Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus as a way to undo the white/black binary and argue for the instability of racial identities. The text suggests that the representation of Moors, Goths, and Romans in Titus Andronicus illustrates Elizabethan anxieties of an “infiltraed England.” The work engages in topics of mixed-race children, racial passing, sexuality, and gender.