Shakespeare Jungle Fever: National-Imperial Re-Visions of Race, Rape, and SacrificeThis book takes Shakespeare's plays as a site for studying the specter of interracial sex of a jungle fever in early modern England's envisionings of itself. Shakespeare's works here assume the status of interrogating, of re envisioning, rather than simply restaging the scene of a horrific sexual encounter. The author argues that early modern England's national imperial aesthetic, notably its evocation of classicism, relies significantly on a textual