Includes bibliographical references (pages 111-130) and index.
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 -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z.
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Colonial Women is the first comprehensive study to explore the interpenetrating discourses of gender and race 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 and promote the success of the English appropriation, commodification, and exploitation of the New World and its native inhabitants.
Colonial women.
Behn, Aphra,1640-1689., Widow ranter.
Shakespeare, William,1564-1616., Tempest.
Tempest (Shakespeare, William)
Colonies in literature.
Culture in literature.
English drama-- 17th century-- History and criticism.
English drama-- Restoration, 1660-1700-- History and criticism.
Imperialism in literature.
Land tenure in literature.
Race in literature.
Women and literature-- Colonies-- Great Britain.
Women and literature-- Great Britain-- History-- 17th century.