“Dolum Procudam Dolo”: the anglo‐portuguese dimension and the portuguese imagotype in George Ruggle’s neo‐latin comedy Ignoramus (1614‐1615)

Abstract

In 1614‐15 the University of Cambridge staged the neo‐latin comedy Ignoramus, by George Ruggle (1575‐1622), during king James I’s visit. This paper deals with the text’s negative hetero‐stereotyping of the Portuguese (Catholic) characters and analyses the characterization of both Englishness and the Catholic definitional Other(s).