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Colonial women : race and culture in stuart drama

Analyzing the plays of Shakespeare, Fletcher, Davenant, Dryden, Behn and other playwrights, Heidi Hutner argues that in drama, as in historical accounts, the symbol of the native woman is used to justify the English commodification and exploitation of the New World and its native inhabitants
eBook, English, 2001
Oxford Univ Press, New York, 2001
Criticism, interpretation, etc
1 online resource (pages)
9780195349641, 9781280531194, 9781429402224, 0195349644, 1280531193, 1429402229
191924393
Introduction: Colonial Women and Stuart Drama; One: The Tempest, The Sea Voyage, and the Pocahontas Myth; Two: Restoration Revisions of The Tempest; Three: The Indian Queen and The Indian Emperour; Four: Aphra Behn's The Widow Ranter; Afterword; Notes; Index
English