Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-238) and index.
Contents
Before Empire: England, alterity, and the Mediterranean context -- The English and the early modern Mediterranean context -- Marlowe's Mahomet: Islam, Turks, and religious controversy in Tamburlaine, parts I and II -- Othello turns Turk -- Scenes of conversion: piracy, apostasy and the Sultan's Seraglio -- Machiavellian merchants: Italians, Jews, and Turks.
