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Representations of Flemish Immigrants on the Early Modern Stage
Studies in Performance and Early Modern Drama Series
Author: McCluskey Peter Matthew
Language: EnglishSubjects for Representations of Flemish Immigrants on the Early...:
Keywords
Sir John Van Olden Barnavelt; Young Men; Elizabeth; Dutch Church Libel; Tudor; Edward III; Jack Straw; Shoemaker’s Holiday; Sir Thomas More; Early Modern Drama; 1642; Anti-alien Riots; 1581; Arminian Doctrine; censorship; Continual Equation; xenophobia; De Bard; Flemish immigrants; Amboyna Massacre; Flemish immigration; Early Stuart Drama; Smadja Éric; Gentle Craft; Addition Ii; Immigrant Weavers; Stage Dutch; Stuart Drama; Stranger Churches; Seventeenth Century Drama; Foreign Suitors; Dutch Merchant; Dutch Courtesan; Webster’s Westward Ho; Dutch Church
Publication date: 12-2020
· 13.8x21.6 cm · Paperback
Publication date: 10-2018
· 13.8x21.6 cm · Hardback
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Immigrants from the Low Countries constituted the largest population of resident aliens in early modern England. Possessing superior technology in a number of fields and enjoying governmental protection, the Flemish were charged by many native artisans with unfair economic competition. With xenophobic sentiments running so high that riots and disorders occurred throughout the sixteenth century, Elizabeth I directed her dramatic censor to suppress material that might incite further disorder, forcing playwrights to develop strategies to address the alien problem indirectly. Representations of Flemish Immigrants on the Early Modern Stage describes the immigrant community during this period and explores the consistently negative representations of Flemish immigrants in Tudor interludes, the impact of censorship, the playwrighting strategies that eluded it, and the continuation of these methods until the closing of the theatres in 1642.
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter One
Chapter Two
Chapter Three
Chapter Four
Chapter Five
Bibliography
Index
Peter Matthew McCluskey is an associate professor of English at Middle Tennessee State University, where he teaches courses in Shakespeare, Shakespeare on Film, British popular culture, and crime fiction.