Rubright, Marjorie.

Doppelgänger Dilemmas : Anglo-Dutch Relations in Early Modern English Literature and Culture. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (351 pages)

Cover -- Contents -- Introduction: Double Dutch -- Chapter 1. Going Dutch in London City Comedy -- Chapter 2. ''By Common Language Resembled'': Anglo-Dutch Kinship in the Language Debates -- Chapter 3. Double Dutch Tongues: Language Lessons of the Stage -- Chapter 4. Dutch Impressions: The Narcissism of Minor Difference in Print -- Chapter 5. London as Palimpsest: The Anglo-Dutch Royal Exchange -- Chapter 6. Doppelgänger Dilemmas: The Crisis of Anglo-Dutch Interchangeability in the East Indies and the Imperfect Redress of Performance -- Coda: A View from Antwerp -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z -- Acknowledgments.

Examining literary and dramatic puns, double entendres, and other doublings, Marjorie Rubright uncovers the ways early modern England's real and imagined proximities with the Dutch played a crucial role in the making of English ethnicity.

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English literature-Early modern, 1500-1700-History and criticism.
Cultural relations in literature.
Ethnicity in literature.
National characteristics, English, in literature.
Great Britain-Relations-Netherlands.
Netherlands-Relations-Great Britain.


Electronic books.

PR408.I59 -- R83 2014eb

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