othello, queen elizabeth and racism

[lala196]

hey, im currently writing an english essay on othello and i need some help with a quote, apparently there is a famous quote by queen elizabeth or some other famous queen... something like the country is being overrun with moors or something can anyone help me with the actual quote?

[Peter Pedant]

Hmm, the only person to have seen a Shakespeare play in real time was Simon Forman and I think it was Macbeth.

sorry

[jno]

"People are really rather afraid that this country might be swamped by people of a different culture." - Margaret Thatcher, 1978. I know, not a queen and not Moors particularly, but could that have been it?

[mycatis]

Er Peter Pedant, what??? lol

[Blu-Tack Jes]

Hey!
Tracked down the quote I think your looking for, In 1600/1601, Elizabeth signed a proclamation stating she had cause to be

"discontented at the great number of Negars & blackamoors which are crept into the realm since the troubles between her Highness and the King of Spain."

If your not sure if you want to trust me (*unhappy face*) type into google a bit of the quote or something :-)
Hope this helps!
Jess

[Drusilla1S]

'Her Majesty understanding that several blackamoors have lately been brought into this realm, of which kind of people there are already too many here... Her Majesty's pleasure therefore is that those kinds of people should be expelled from the land.'

Proclamation by Elizabeth I July 1596.