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"With Honour Quit the Fort": Ambivalent Colonialism in Dryden's Amboyna.

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From: Early Modern Literary Studies
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"With Honour Quit the Fort": Ambivalent Colonialism in Dryden's Amboyna

Candy B. K. Schille

Georgia Southern University

Schille, Candy B.K. ""With Honour Quit the Fort": Ambivalent Colonialism in Dryden's Amboyna". Early Modern Literary Studies 12.1 (May, 2006) 4.1-30 .

For a play called by its author "scarcely [worth] a serious perusal" [1] and once deemed by its editors "beneath criticism" and "utterly worthless" (by Sir Walter Scott and George Saintsbury, respectively), [2] John Dryden's Amboyna, or The Cruelties of the Dutch ...

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