the play has amost intersting double focus,geographically speaking.Openly, it is a story of Naples and Milan , a world of usurpations,trubutes, homages, and political marriages that is familiar in jakoban tragedy. At the same time, the contemporary excitement of the new world permeates the play_a world of indians and the plantations of the colonies,of the wonders and terrors nd credulities of a newly discovered land. A lesser dramatist would surely have set his play far away in the Atlantic to take adventage of this contemporary excitement.
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