Heywood, Thomas | Joseph Courtland (essay date 2001)
Joseph Courtland (essay date 2001)
SOURCE: Courtland, Joseph. “A Cultural Rereading of The Fair Maid of the West: Part I.” In A Cultural Studies Approach to Two Exotic Citizen Romances by Thomas Heywood, pp. 91-121. New York: Peter Lang, 2001.
[In the following excerpt, Courtland examines Heywood's play within the context of Elizabethan colonialism.]
Scholars have long recognized Thomas Heywood's exotic fantasy, The Fair Maid of the West: Part l, as one of the best citizen adventure dramas ever written: Frederick S. Boas has called it one of Heywood's most attractive and accomplished pieces of work,1 Arthur Melville Clark judged it to be a “breezy masterpiece,”2 while Mowbray Velte considered it as among the finest of its own rank: “a really splendid blending of realism and romantic adventure, a tale with an appeal to all ages and all red-blooded peoples.”3 Yet in spite of such...
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