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The study of religious conversion in general has created a vision of conversion as a negative phenomenon. Studies of religious conversion are relatively new as the recent wave of study of this phenomenon began only in the 1950s. Moreover, the study of Muslim conversion in the We…

Since there are many injunctions against women’s teaching and public speech in seventeenth-century texts prescribing female conduct, why does English drama in this period feature so many female tutors? I argue that this previously unnoticed category of “female tutors,” character…