英文摘要 |
Dryden's play Amboyna was published in 1673; the core of the play deals with the massacre of the English merchants by the Dutch in 1623. The conflicts between England and Netherland over overseas plantations started back in the previous century but the tensions increased and resulted in Anglo-Dutch wars. In America, the Dutch controlled the Hudson River Valley from 1609 until the English took over in 1664, when the Dutch lost New Netherland. In 1673, however, at the time when Amboyna was published, the Dutch had recaptured New Netherland with a fleet of 21 ships. In its time, Amboyna was a play that reinforced national identity, not only by depicting the tensions between the English and the Dutch, but by expressing colonial imagination in English cultural memory. |