Renegado

The Renegado is one of the most shamelessly entertaining plays of its age, fetching its inspiration from a number of works by Cervantes, based on his own experiences as a captive in Algiers. Introducing the eroticized captivity narrative to the English stage, Massinger''s tragicomedy combines it with the long-popular romance motif of a Christian hero''s conquest of an exotic princess. But even as ...