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Al-Azami, Lubaaba. “Racecraft and the Indian Queen in The Temple of Love (1635).” Renaissance Studies 37, no. 5 (2023): 685–700.
Study of the figure of the elite and royal Indian woman in early modern English dramas, focusing specifically on William Davenant’s Temple of Love (c. 1635). The article shows how the Indian queen’s ability to pass as white reflects English longings to attach themselves to the economic and political might of the Mughal Empire. This piece is likely to be of interest to students of English and performance studies.
