The essays in this book analyze a range of genres and considers geographical areas beyond the Ottoman Empire to deepen our post-Saidian understanding of the complexity of real and imagined 'traffic' between England and the 'Islamic worlds' it encountered and constructed. INDICE: Islamic Worlds in Early Modern English Literature - Bernadette Andrea and Linda McJannet - PART I: CHARTING ARABIA AND THE 'ARABIAN PROPHET' - From Maurice to Mohammad: Othello, Islam, and Baptism - Andrew Moran - Demonizing Spain in Ralegh's The Life and Death of Mahomet - Dennis Britton - PART II:ENGLISH VENTURES INTO 'PERSIANATE' CULTURES - Persian Icons, Shi'a Imams: Liminal Figures and Hybrid Persian Identities on the English Stage - Javad Ghatta- Tartar Masques in Mary Wroth's The Countess of Montgomeries Urania, Part II- Bernadette Andrea - Mariam Khan and the Legacy of Mughal Women in Early Modern Literature of India - Bindu Malieckal - PART III: 'TURK PLAYS' AND ENGLISHIDENTITY FORMATION - ' By my Owne Experience or the Most probablest Relation off Others': Peter Mundy's MS Account of Constantinople (1617-20) - Philip Palmer - Guy of Warwick, Godfrey of Bouillon, and Elizabethan Repertory - Annaliese Connolly - 'Now will I be a Turke': Performing Ottoman Identity in Thomas Goffe's The Courageous Turk - Joel Slotkin - PART IV: ENGLAND'S TRAFFIC WITH ITS EASTS - The Frontiers of Twelfth Night - Su Fang Ng - 'A Turk's mustachio': Anglo-Islamic Exchange and the Development of Urban Character in Ben Jonson's City Comedies - Justin Kolb - 'Oranges and Lemons say the Bells of St. Clement's': Domesticating Eastern Commodities in London Comedies - Linda McJannet
- ISBN: 978-0-230-11542-2
- Editorial: Palgrave MacM
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 288
- Fecha Publicación: 05/08/2011
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés