Abstract
This essay re-evaluates John Fletcher and Philip Massinger's The Sea Voyage (1622) by investigating the often elided role of huswifery (women's domestic labour) in early modern English colonial discourse. First-hand accounts of travel and plantation conventionally present a homo-social world, in which the role of women is either deemphasised or occluded altogether. The potential for fiction to reimagine the conditions necessary for the long-term survival of European colonies overseas was realised in The Sea Voyage, a play which dramatises the crucial and equal role women play in the success of either country estate or plantation.
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