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Victoria Muñoz

is an assistant professor of English at The City University of New York Hostos Community College. She is a scholar of early modern England and Spain with subspecialties in postcolonialism and theories of empire. Her book, Spanish Romance in the Battle for Global Supremacy: Tudor and Stuart Black Legends (Anthem Press, 2020), shows how England’s fanatical consumption of the so-called books of the brave Iberian conquistadors rooted the idea of English empire as a civilized alternative to Spanish conquest.
“More strange than true”: Finding America among the fairies
Shakespeare and Beyond

“More strange than true”: Finding America among the fairies

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Victoria Muñoz

“I have had a most rare vision…” Bottom’s words in Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” echo the language of Spanish conquistadors describing Aztec Mexico.