Little is known of the Ovimbundu prior to the seventeenth century, due to the fact that the Portuguese made little effort at recording the background of any of the indigenous ethnic groups of Angola, but were more interested in recording their own history. ... By the eighteenth century the Ovimbundu had established twenty-two kingdoms. ... The Portuguese conquered the Ovimbundu in the late nineteenth century (Collelo). ... By the middle of the sixteenth century, the Portuguese traders were giving favorable attention to the ngola, which angered the Bakongo, who sent an army to defeat the ng...

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Dryden and Davenant's changes to Shakespeare's original continued to influence the seventeenth- and eighteenth-century critics. Eighteenth-century commentaries on Caliban still treated him as a monster, but they focused on new issues. ... From the late eighteenth century commentators began to associate The Tempest's plot, language and characters with Europe's exploration and colonization of America. ... "Colonial metaphors" was a trend contemporaneous to the American school and flourished in the twentieth century outside the English-speaking nations. ... The view prevalent ...

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