Contents

List of Figures

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Not Turning the Ethiope White

1.     “The Baptiz’d Race”

2.     Ovidian Baptism in Book 2 of The Faerie Queene

3.     Infidel Texts and Errant Sexuality: Translation, Reading, and Conversion in Harington’s Orlando Furioso

4.     Transformative and Restorative Romance: Re-“turning” Othello and the Location of Christian Identity

5.     Reproducing Christians: Salvation, Race, and Gender on the Early Modern English Stage

Afterword: A Political Afterlife of a Theology of Race and Conversion

Notes

Bibliography

Index