Turning Turk : English theater and the multicultural Mediterranean, 1570-1630 / Daniel Vitkus.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Vitkus, Daniel J.

Contributor:

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Early modern cultural studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English literature--Mediterranean influences.

English literature.

English drama--Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600--History and criticism.

English drama.

English drama--17th century--History and criticism.

Theater--England--History--16th century.

Theater.

England.

History.

Theater--England--History--17th century.

Multiculturalism in literature.

Orientalism in literature.

Exoticism in literature.

Mediterranean Region--In literature.

Mediterranean Region.

Physical Description:

xiv, 244 pages ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2003.

Summary:

"Turning Turk looks at contact between the English and other cultures inthe early modern Mediterranean, and analyzes the representation of thatexperience on the London stage. Vitkus's book demonstrates that theEnglish encounter with exotic alterity, and the theatrical representationsinspired 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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [221]-238) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

0312294522

OCLC:

52418140

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