"First published 2016 by Ashgate publishing"

Introduction -- Race in eighteenth-century Germany -- Slavery, colonialism, and the eighteenth-century global stage -- "Looking at the overlooked": stage properties and the table in Karl Lessing's Die mätresse (1780) -- The construction of whiteness in the traditional German bourgeois drama -- Race, doubles, and foils: staging blackness in Friedrich Wilhelm Ziegler's Die mohrinn (1801) -- Race, homosocial desire, and the black in Ernst Lorenz Rathlef's Die mohrinn zu Hamburg (1775) -- Reading in the dark? racial hierarchy and miscegenation in Heinrich von Kleist's Die verlobung in St. Domingo (1811) and Theodor Körner's Toni (1812) -- Epilogue.