This is not poetry, but in terms of blackness there is also the play that
some of T. More's enemies made not just with "More" deriving from "fool"
in Greek but also a homonym for "Moor" (and then there's a black currant).
Anne Prescott
> Several of Shakespeare's plays, of course, touch on Spaniards and
> Spanish matters. Don Adriana de Armado (the "fantastical Spaniard")
> in LLL, obviously, but also Don Pedro and Don John in Much Ado. And
> Borachio too for that matter. Sicily is a part of Spain -- it's
> interesting to think of them as NOT Italians like the rest of the
> cast. Don Pedro is off to Aragon, he says, after the wedding, though
> Claudio, who offers to go with him!, is a Florentine and Benedick
> from Padua. The Prince of Aragon in Merchant of Venice is another
> national protrait of sorts. Even, God help us, Iago might be
> included, though Spain seems to be for him a subtextual (Sant Iago
> Matamoros) rather than an explicit element. Othello has a sword from
> Spain, and of course raises the whole questions of Moors.... But
> that's a large can of worms.
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> Tom
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