| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 264 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-258) and index. |
| Contents |
Cover -- Copyright -- Acknowledgments -- Figures -- Introduction Seduction, Resistance, and Redemption: 8220;Turning Turk8221; and the Embodiment of Christian Faith -- Chapter 1 Dangerous Fellowship: Universal Faith and its Bodily Limits in The Comedy of Errors and Othello -- Chapter 2 Recycled Models: Catholic Martyrdom and Embodied Resistance to Conversion in The Virgin Martyr and Other Red Bull Plays -- Chapter 3 Engendering Faith: Sexual Defilement and Spiritual Redemption in The Renegado -- Chapter 4 8220;Reforming8221; the Knights of Malta: Male Chastity and Temperance in Five Early Modern Plays -- Epilogue Turning Miscegenation into Tragicomedy (Or Not): Robert Greenes Orlando Furioso -- Notes -- Index. |
| Summary |
This book explores the threat of Christian conversion to Islam in twelve early modern English plays. In works by Shakespeare, Marlowe, Massinger, and others, conversion from Christianity to Islam is represented as both tragic and erotic, as a fate worse than death and as a sexual seduction. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Islam in literature.
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Islam in literature. |
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Muslim converts from Christianity.
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Muslim converts from Christianity. |
| Chronological Term |
1500 - 1600 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Degenhardt, Jane Hwang. Islamic conversion and Christian resistance on the early modern stage. Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, ©2010 9780748640843 (OCoLC)615861111 |
| ISBN |
9781474402378 |
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1474402372 |
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9780748643202 (electronic book) |
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0748643206 (electronic book) |
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9780748640843 |
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0748640843 |
| Standard No. |
9786612899775 |
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