Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-186) and index.
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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.
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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.
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Title
Women and race in early modern texts.
International Standard Book Number
0521810167
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
English drama-- 17th century-- History and criticism.
English drama-- Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600-- History and criticism.
English drama-- Women authors-- History and criticism.
Race in literature.
Renaissance-- England.
Women and literature-- England-- History-- 16th century.
Women and literature-- England-- History-- 17th century.