"Sycorax's Hoop"
https://www.worldshakesbib.org/entry/bbbp77/
Author:
	Bui, Hanh.
Type:
	Journal Article
Year:
	2023
Publication Information:
	Shakespeare Survey 76 (2023): 180–95.
Annotation:
	Shows how Shakespeare draws on a racialized "lexicon of aged female deformity" in describing Sycorax's "hoop" and evoking sagging breasts, a hunchback, and Otherness. Concludes that "Sycorax's hoop ultimately functions as an adaptable screen for various projections of the monstrous, racialized, and pathological old crone." English summary, 263.
Language:
	English
Keywords:
	critical race studies; disability studies
Tags:
	Scholarship, Criticism, History of Criticism, The Tempest
WSB Update:
	Spring 2026
WSB Record Number:
	bbbp77