| Description |
1 online resource (ix, 188 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Women, race, and Renaissance texts; CHAPTER 1 Cleopatra: whiteness and knowledge; CHAPTER 2 Sex, race, and empire in Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra; CHAPTER 3 Dido and Sophonisba of Carthage: marriage, race, and the bonds between men; CHAPTER 4 The disappearing African woman: Imoinda in Oroonoko after Behn; CHAPTER 5 Race, women, and the sentimental in Thomas Southerne's Oroonoko; CHAPTER 6 Chaste lines: writing and unwriting race in Katherine Philips' Pompey |
| Summary |
Discusses the links between women's racial, sexual, and civic identities in early modern texts. Joyce Green MacDonald examines both Renaissance, and Restoration and eighteenth-century plays covering works, by, among others, Shakespeare, Jonson, Davenant, the Countess of Pembroke and Aphra Behn |
| Analysis |
Litteratur Engelsk, amerikansk litteratur |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-186) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
English drama -- Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600 -- History and criticism
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Race in literature.
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Women and literature -- England -- History -- 16th century
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Women and literature -- England -- History -- 17th century
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English drama -- Women authors -- History and criticism
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English drama -- 17th century -- History and criticism
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Renaissance -- England
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Women in literature.
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DRAMA -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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English drama
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English drama -- Early modern and Elizabethan
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English drama -- Women authors
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Race in literature
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Renaissance
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Women and literature
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Women in literature
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Literatur
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Frau Motiv
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Rasse Motiv
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Geschlechtsidentität Motiv
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England
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Englisch.
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History
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Online-Publikation.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
0511042140 |
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9780511042140 |
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0521810167 |
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9780521810166 |
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0511044976 |
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9780511044977 |
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0511120087 |
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9780511120084 |
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9780511483721 |
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0511483724 |
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9780521153379 |
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0521153379 |
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