CONTEXT

Question 1

moroccan ambassador

Answer 1

• visited London in 1600 to negotiate military alliance against spain
• Shakespeare impressed by party
• had a portrait

Question 2

draft proclomation

Answer 2

1601 draft proclomation asked for deportation of Black…draining national resources at a time of harship

Question 3

Leo Africanus

Answer 3

• used reductive racial stereotypes to describe vices of Africans in 1550
• ‘no nation in the world is so subject to jealousy’ ‘so credulous they believe matters impossible which are told to them’

Question 4

supernatual

Answer 4

• people made pact with devil in exchange for supernatural powers
• people accused of witches= old poor single women
• desdemona none of these association with Othello reduced her status

Question 5

Mary Wollstonecroft

Answer 5

• first wave feminist focused on suffrage female ed and ownership of property
• ‘taught from infancy that beauty is woman’s sceptre…the mind shapes itself to the body… only seeks to adorn its prison

Question 6

Judith Butler

Answer 6

• third wave feminist movement
• ‘Imitation and gender subordination
• gender is a fluid concept not fixed

Question 7

COLONISATION

Answer 7

Venetian colonisation of Ottoman Cyprus would have seemed advantageous - western europeans regarded non-Christendom countries as being uncivilised