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The Roma were portrayed in Victorian and modern British literature as having "sinister occult and criminal tendencies" and as associated with "thievery and cunning", and in English Renaissance and baroque theatre as incorporating "elements of outlandish charm and elements which depict as the lowest
172:." In opera, literature and music, throughout Europe, Roma women have been portrayed as provocative, sexually available, gaudy, exotic and mysterious. Hollywood and European movies, as well as popular music and other forms of pop culture, have promoted similar stereotypes. 311:– Cleopatra is twice referred to as a "gipsy," both in the play's opening speech and following Antony's defeat at the Battle of Actium. Early modern people erroneously believed that the Roma had originally hailed from ancient Egypt. 160:, and their supposed irascible or passionate temper which is paired with an indomitable love of freedom and a habit of criminality. Critics of how the Roma have been portrayed in popular culture point out similarities to 1525: 219:, featuring Roma lay actors speaking in their native dialects, although still playing with established clichĂ©s of a Roma penchant for both magic and crime, was presented by 1194: 1520: 396:
imaginary, is cited many Romani characters in books and musics like in Di Alte Tsigayner ('The Old Romani'), Di Kleine Tsigayner ('The Little Romani') and Budapesht ('
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meaning "black" or "with blackness" in Anglo-Romani. As the first Roma immigrants arrived in England a century before Shakespeare wrote
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includes a fantasy version of the Roma, the Vistani. Early printings portrayed the Vistani in a stereotyped light.
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by Shakespeare – He uses the word "ducdame" (Act II, Sc. 5), possibly a corruption or mishearing of the old
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in literature and art present Romanticized narratives of their supposed mystical powers of
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Patterns of Symbolic Violence: The Motif of 'Gypsy' Child-theft across Visual Media
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The Gypsy caravan: from real Roma to imaginary Gypsies in Western music and film
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The marginalization of shadow minorities (Roma) and its impact on opportunities
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Gypsy Identities 1500-2000: From Egipcyans and Moon-men to the Ethnic Romany
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is imagining the face of a lover can make the dark-skinned Roma look like
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of social outcasts," connected with "magic and charms," and "juggling and
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Particularly notable representations of the Roma appear in classics like
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The foreign woman in British literature: exotics, aliens, and outsiders
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The Gypsy Woman: Representations in literature and visual culture
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The Gypsy as Trope in Victorian and Modern British Literature
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The tragedy of Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
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Taras Shevchenko
Roma
fortune telling
portrayals of Jewish people
cozening
Carmen
Prosper Mérimée
Georges Bizet
Victor Hugo
The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
Miguel de Cervantes
La Gitanilla
Tabor ukhodit v Nebo
Romani in the Balkans
Emir Kusturica
Time of the Gypsies
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