Joyce Green MacDonald is Associate Professor of English at the University of Kentucky.

• Acknowledgements; Introduction: women, race, and Renaissance texts; 1. Cleopatra: whiteness and knowledge; 2. Sex, race, and empire in Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra; 3. Dido and Sophonisba of Carthage: marriage, race, and the bonds between men; 4. The disappearing African woman: Imoinda in Oroonoko after Behn; 5. Race, women, and the sentimental in Thomas Southerne's Oroonoko; 6. Chaste lines: writing and unwriting race in Katherine Phillips' Pompey; 7. The Queen's minion: sexual difference, racial difference, and Aphra Behn's Abdelazer; Conclusion: 'the efficacy of imagination'; Bibliography; Index.

"This elegant, innovative book fulfills and extends the promise of early modern race studies of the past decade." Renaissance Quarterly

Joyce Green MacDonald is Associate Professor of English at the University of Kentucky.

• Acknowledgements; Introduction: women, race, and Renaissance texts; 1. Cleopatra: whiteness and knowledge; 2. Sex, race, and empire in Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra; 3. Dido and Sophonisba of Carthage: marriage, race, and the bonds between men; 4. The disappearing African woman: Imoinda in Oroonoko after Behn; 5. Race, women, and the sentimental in Thomas Southerne's Oroonoko; 6. Chaste lines: writing and unwriting race in Katherine Phillips' Pompey; 7. The Queen's minion: sexual difference, racial difference, and Aphra Behn's Abdelazer; Conclusion: 'the efficacy of imagination'; Bibliography; Index.

"This elegant, innovative book fulfills and extends the promise of early modern race studies of the past decade." Renaissance Quarterly

Joyce Green MacDonald is Associate Professor of English at the University of Kentucky.

• Acknowledgements; Introduction: women, race, and Renaissance texts; 1. Cleopatra: whiteness and knowledge; 2. Sex, race, and empire in Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra; 3. Dido and Sophonisba of Carthage: marriage, race, and the bonds between men; 4. The disappearing African woman: Imoinda in Oroonoko after Behn; 5. Race, women, and the sentimental in Thomas Southerne's Oroonoko; 6. Chaste lines: writing and unwriting race in Katherine Phillips' Pompey; 7. The Queen's minion: sexual difference, racial difference, and Aphra Behn's Abdelazer; Conclusion: 'the efficacy of imagination'; Bibliography; Index.

"This elegant, innovative book fulfills and extends the promise of early modern race studies of the past decade." Renaissance Quarterly