SOURCE: “Dangerous American Substances in Jacobean England,” in Cahiers Elisabéthains, No. 46, October 1994, pp. 1-7.
In the following essay, Hartman examines the ways in which English theatrical entertainment of the seventeenth century reflected King James's distrust of commodities from the New World—in particular, tobacco.
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