"Those rebellious Hollanders": The Changeling´s Double Dutch
The Changeling (1622) fits neatly into a familiar anti-Spanish narrative, one so \Vell established in criticism as to obscure the wider international picture. Early in the play a reference to England's erstwhile aHy against Spain is mentioned in passing, and no more i5 made of the Dutch naval v...
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| Publicat a: | SEDERI Yearbook |
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| Format: | Artigo |
| Idioma: | Inglês |
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Spanish and Portuguese Society for English Renaissance Studies
2014
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| Özet: | The Changeling (1622) fits neatly into a familiar anti-Spanish narrative, one so \Vell established in criticism as to obscure the wider international picture. Early in the play a reference to England's erstwhile aHy against Spain is mentioned in passing, and no more i5 made of the Dutch naval victory over the Spanish in 1607. But this may have resonated in ways that complicated the play's anti-Spanish sentiment. The enduring resonance of the contemporaneous Amboyna Massacre of 1623 suggests a more complicated reception of The Chl1ngeling than critics have allowed foro Even in 1622, when the play \Vas most likely first performed, tensions with the Dutch were on the rise, and the apparent nostalgia for the Protestant allianee which the Treaty of London of 1604 had brollght to an end was complicated by the emergence of an empire that would outstrip Spain's and gradually replace it as England's chief rival. |
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