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Record W4245160619 · doi:10.1080/17450910802501105

Veiling an Indian beauty: Shakespeare and the<i>hijab</i>

2008· article· en· W4245160619 on OpenAlex
Richard Wilson

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Bibliographic record

VenueShakespeare · 2008
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicShakespeare, Adaptation, and Literary Criticism
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsBeautyOrientalismArtAestheticsLiterature

Abstract

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Abstract Bassanio's suspicion of the "beauteous scarf / Veiling an Indian beauty" belongs within an Orientalist discourse in which the "Dark Lady" figures the impenetrability of global trade to western unveiling, an endless "travailing" of "sails and veils" that (like Jacques Derrida and Hélène Cixous) Shakespeare associates with the secretion of silk. But in a culture that craved eye-to-eye openness, his plays valorize masked desire as a means of inserting private faces in public spaces, and so introduce the fashionable silk visor as a screen, like the hijab, which puts secrecy on display. Thus, the "Moorish" subtext of The Merchant of Venice constitutes a new Catholic "closet" sphere that is the foundation of modern religious and sexual toleration, as the overdetermined silk veil is emptied on the stage of its history of cultural suspicion and fundamentalist violence. Keywords: The Merchant of VeniceveilsailmasksilkIndiaDerridahospitalityinteriorityclosetsecrecytoleration Notes 1. Cf. "In the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, East and West met on much more equal terms … East met West in strenuous and constructive competition" (Jardine Jardine , Lisa , and Jerry Brotton . Global Interests: Renaissance Art between East and West . London : Reaktion , 2000 . [Google Scholar] and Brottom 184–85). 2. For an alternative reading of Bassanio's lines, Hopkins Hopkins , Lisa . "'An Indian Beauty?' A Proposed Emendation to The Merchant of Venice." Shakespeare Newsletter 50 ( 2000 ): 27 . [Google Scholar] argues for a punctuation of the lines as "the beauteous scarf / Veiling and Indian; beauty – in a word, / The seeming truth … ". But this emendation diminishes the Orientalist "dark lady" metaphor. 3. See Maus Maus , Katharine Eisaman . Inwardness and Theater in the English Renaissance . Chicago : Chicago UP , 1995 . [Google Scholar] for a sustained critique of the idea that in Shakespearean culture "the individual derived a sense of self from external matrices" (2). 4. For Mary Ward and the debate about the clausura, see Rapley Rapley , Elizabeth . The Dévotes: Women and Church in Seventeenth-Century France . Montreal : McGill-Queen's UP , 1990 . [Google Scholar] (28–29, 54–56). 5. For beards as signifiers of Renaissance masculinity, see Fraser Fraser , Will . "The Renaissance Beard: Masculinity in Early Modern England." Renaissance Quarterly 54 ( 2001 ): 155 – 87 .[Crossref], [PubMed], [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar]. But for the prosthetic construction of facial hair, see also Johnston Johnston , Mark Albert . "Prosthetic Absence in Ben Jonson's Epicoene, The Alchemist, and Bartholomew Fair." English Literary Renaissance 37 ( 2007 ): 401 – 29 .[Crossref], [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar]. 6. "The dress of the bridegroom is of gold-cloth, with an immense bunch of silver trimming that falls over his face, and answers to the purpose of a veil … and to his mouth he keeps a red silk handkerchief closely pressed to prevent devils entering" (Ali Ali , Meer Hassan . Observations on the Mussulmauns of India Descriptive of their Manners, Customs, Habits and Religious Opinions . London : Humphrey Milford and Oxford UP , 1832, repr. 1917 . [Google Scholar] 204). 7. For Thisbe's veil as a feature of a Babylonian love-story and so the ancient prototype of the modern hijab, see Shirazi (3–4). 8. For Queen Anne's defiant "drama of feminine blackness", see Tomlinson Tomlinson , Sophie . "Theatrical Vibrancy on the Caroline Court Stage." Women and Culture at the Courts of the Stuart Queens . Clare McManus . Basingstoke : Palgrave , 2003 . 186 – 203 . [Google Scholar] (194–95).

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMeta-epidemiology (narrow), Science and technology studies, Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.939
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0020.002
Scholarly communication0.0010.001
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0020.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.039
GPT teacher head0.217
Teacher spread0.179 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it