Performing Calibanesque Baptisms: Shakespearean Fractals of British Indian History

This paper uncovers new complexity for Shakespearean studies in examining three anecdotes overlooked in related historiography—the first Indian baptism in Britain, that of Peter Pope, in 1616, and its extrapolation in Victorian history as Calibanesque; the tale of Catherine Bengall, an Indian servan...

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Main Author: Arup K. Chatterjee
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Lodz University Press 2021-06-01
Series:Multicultural Shakespeare
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Online Access:https://czasopisma.uni.lodz.pl/szekspir/article/view/10720