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This essay examines the complex interaction between gender and the N e w World in two early-to-mid-seventeenth-century comedies, Fletcher's and Massinger's collaborative The Sea Voyage (1622) and Massinger's single-authored The City Madam (1632). Both texts engage with the Virginian enterprise and the troubled history of the Jamestown venture. Indeed, characters' attitudes towards, and behaviour in, colonial situations are used to measure their conformity to expected gender behaviour. Furthermore, I argue that characters' gender performance specifically their attitude to sexual commerce figures as a metaphor for a larger set of commercial relations with the N e w World. The m e n and w o m e n in these

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'Her flesh must serve you': Gender, Commerce and the New World in Fletcher's and Massinger's &lt;i&gt;The Sea Voyage&lt;/i&gt; and Massinger's &lt;i&gt;The City Madam&lt;/i&gt;