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Of Windmills and Bubbles
Plays using the Faustus plot have often been produced in response to English political crises, such as after the Stuart Restoration and during the Glorious Revolution. In the wake of the South Sea Bubble and the Atterbury Plot, Faustus returned to the stage in spectacles featuring thunder, lightning, dragons, and windmills. Faustus pantomimes came to represent the political machine, and playwrights used them to attack and defend political figures and to take sides in these two remarkable eighteenth-century scandals. In this essay, Judy A. Hayden examines allusions to these scandals in two influential examples of this tradition,Harlequin Doctor FaustusandThe Necromancer, both produced in 1723.
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Of Love and War
Of Love and War: The Political Voice in the Early Plays of Aphra Behn is a study which situates Behn's early plays within their historical and political context. Behn (c.1640-1689), the first professional female playwright in England, is a fascinating study, having traveled to Surinam as a young woman, served as a spy for Charles II, and evidently supported her family through her writing, including plays, poetry, fiction, and translation. Her early plays have often been dismissed as romances, largely because they treat such social and/or gender issues as forced marriage and female desire. This study argues that these same social issues frequently serve as tropes for political commentary and propaganda in support of foreign and domestic policies. Behn's plays clearly demonstrate staunch loyalist support of the Stuart government, yet within the dramatic construction, she--like her contemporary male colleagues, offers fascinating covert political criticism.
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Through the eyes of the beholder : the Holy Land, 1517-1713
The collection is the first to bring together a number of accounts about the Holy Land written by early modern authors from different religious and regional backgrounds.
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\Turkish Dames\ and \English Mastiffs\: The \Turk\ and the Female Body in Massinger's The Renegado
In early modern travel discourse, exploration of 'distant' or 'other' lands is typically configured as some aspect of the female body. Power relations between East and West were often described in terms of conquest or ravishment, the site of which is typically the female body, as might be seen in early modern English literary response to the Ottoman. Couched in terms of the menace the Ottoman poses to the Western Christian, Massinger's The Renegado courts parallels between sexual license, female rebellion, and religion to address domestic threats at home-not from the Ottoman Empire, but rather from the rebellious English women, who represent a clear danger to the patriarchal hegemony.
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Harlequin, the Whigs, and William Mountfort's \Doctor Faustus\
The author argues that the slapstick comic routines for which commedia dell'arte was well-known were not innocuous. In his \"The Life and Death of Doctor Faustus\" (1697), produced in 1688, William Mountfort addresses circumspectly the heated controversy over religion and the crown in the months just prior to the Glorious Revolution. Building on contemporary broadsides, ballads, and pamphlet literature that satirized Titus Oates and linked him with the Whigs, the devil, and the Dutch, Mountfort demonstrates concern about the stability of the state.
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Many Floridas
Many Floridas: Women Envisioning Change began with a group feminist researchers, teachers, advocates and activists in Florida, long isolated and marginalized in small, under-funded and under-valued departments, programs and organizations, who worked together to form the Florida Consortium for Womens and Gender Studies (FCWGS). The essays in this collection report on the status of women in Florida, discuss service-learning as a feminist pedagogy, describe graduate students research on issues.
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