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Pick of the Week: Dean’s Seminar – Moral Constitution: Elizabeth Carey’s ‘Tragedy of Mariam’ and the Color of Blood

Pick of the Week: Dean’s Seminar – Moral Constitution: Elizabeth Carey’s ‘Tragedy of Mariam’ and the Color of Blood

by aseifert | Jun 10, 2013 | Events, Languages & Literature, PotW

Wednesday 12 June 2013   If The Tragedy of Mariam is “about” anything, it is about rank—and the privileges of moral courage and superiority that rank inherently bestows. Mariam’s whiteness against the blackness of the characters of Salome and of Herod does...

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