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This study explores the use of allegory in Renaissance travel drama. Recent criticism has shown how travel writing tells two stories: it describes events in colonial locations and speaks to the wishes of the home nation. This book further develops our understanding of the allegorical nature of colonial discourse by focusing on the negotiations between gender and monarchy in "geographic" drama.
| List of illustrations | ||
| Acknowledgements | ||
| Introduction | 1 | |
| 1 | Elizabeth I and travel writing | 15 |
| 2 | Rebel or hero? Treason, masculinity and the Queen in late sixteenth-century drama | 61 |
| 3 | Gender and colonialism in John Fletcher's Bonduca and The Island Princess | 104 |
| 4 | Pirates, renegadoes and masculine unruliness in early seventeenth-century drama | 140 |
| 5 | New worlds and old worlds: gender performance and social allegory in travel drama | 191 |
| Bibliography | 231 | |
| Index | 249 |
Overview
This study explores the use of allegory in Renaissance travel drama. Recent criticism has shown how travel writing tells two stories: it describes events in colonial locations and speaks to the wishes of the home nation. This book further develops our understanding of the allegorical nature of colonial discourse by focusing on the negotiations between gender and monarchy in "geographic" drama.