Author: Robert Daborne
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781503382459
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 162
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The true, though well-embellished, story of the seventeenth-century English celebrity pirate, John Ward (later Yusuf Rais), who shocked Jacobean England by converting to Islam in 1608.
Author: Daniel J. Vitkus
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 9780231110280
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 396
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Of particular interest in understanding the West's long tradition of demonising Islam, this volume makes available for the first time carefully edited, annotated, modern-spelling editions of three important early modern Turk plays.
Author: D. Vitkus
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137052929
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 255
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Turning Turk looks at contact between the English and other cultures in the early modern Mediterranean, and analyzes the representation of that experience on the London stage. Vitkus's book demonstrates that the English encounter with exotic alterity, and the theatrical representations inspired by that encounter, helped to form the emergent identity of an English nation that was eagerly fantasizing about having an empire, but was still in the preliminary phase of its colonizing drive. Vitkus' research shows how plays about the multi-cultural Mediterranean participated in this process of identity formation, and how anxieties about religious conversion, foreign trade and miscegenation were crucial factors in the formation of that identity.
Author: Jonathan Burton
Publisher: University of Delaware Press
ISBN: 9780874139136
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 332
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It will be of interest to all those interested in questions of early modern contact history, English relations with Islam and the East, English theater history, and cultural politics."--BOOK JACKET.
Author: Palmira Brummett
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107090776
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 385
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This book examines how Ottomans were mapped in the narrative and visual imagination of early modern Europe's Christian kingdoms.
Author: Matthew Dimmock
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107032911
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 309
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This book explores how the figure of the Prophet Muhammad was misrepresented in English and wider Christian culture between 1480 and 1735. By tracing the ways in which 'Mahomet' was written and rewritten, contested and celebrated, this study explores notions of identity and religion, and the resonances of this history today.
Author: Heather J. Sharkey
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 052176937X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 399
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This book traces the history of conflict and contact between Muslims, Christians, and Jews in the Ottoman Middle East prior to 1914.
Author: Hannibal Hamlin
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107172594
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 331
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A wide-ranging yet accessible investigation into the importance of religion in Shakespeare's works, from a team of eminent international scholars.
Author: prince Jakaya (fict.name.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 246
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Author: Christopher Marlowe
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 140814445X
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 221
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One of the smash hits of the late 1580s and 90s, Tamburlaine established blank verse as the poetic line of English Renaissance drama, Edward Alleyn as the first English star actor and Marlowe as one of the foremost playwrights of his time. The rise and fall of a Scythian peasant-warrior who conquers the Middle East and is struck down by illness after burning the books of the Koran is presented in two parts crammed with theatrical splendour and equally spectacular cruelty. Marlowe's original audiences were delighted with the blasphemous and ruthlessly ambitious hero; the introduction to this edition discusses the problems that such a character poses for modern audiences and highlights the undercurrents of the play that lead towards a more ironic interpretation.
