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BL
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958808
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b713178
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MacDonald, Joyce Green.
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| Title & Author
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Women and race in early modern texts /\ Joyce Green MacDonald.
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| Publication Statement
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Cambridge [England] ;New York :: Cambridge University Press,, 2002.
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1 online resource (ix, 188 pages)
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0511042140
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: 0511044976
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: 0521810167
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: 9780511042140
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: 9780511044977
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: 9780511120084
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: 9780511483721
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: 9780521153379
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: 9780521810166
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-186) and index.
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| Contents
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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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| Abstract
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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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English drama-- Women authors-- History and criticism.
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English drama-- 17th century-- History and criticism.
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English drama-- Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600-- History and criticism.
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Race in literature.
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Renaissance-- England.
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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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Women in literature.
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DRAMA-- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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English drama-- Early modern and Elizabethan.
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English drama-- Women authors.
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English drama.
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Frau
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Geschlechtsidentität
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Literatur
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Race in literature.
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Rasse
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Renaissance.
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Women and literature.
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Women in literature.
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England.
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Englisch.
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| Dewey Classification
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822/.309352042
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| LC Classification
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PR658.R34M33 2002eb
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| NLM classification
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18.05bcl
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