books.google.com - Performing Blackness on English Stages, 1500-1800 examines early modern English actors' impersonations of black Africans. Those blackface performances established dynamic theatrical conventions that were repeated from play to play, plot to plot, congealing over time and contributing to English audiences'...http://books.google.com/books/about/Performing_Blackness_on_English_Stages_1.html?id=19_SIlq3ZvsC&utm_source=gb-gplus-sharePerforming Blackness on English Stages, 1500-1800