Staging Islam in England : drama and culture, 1640-1685 / Matthew Birchwood.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Birchwood, Matthew.

Contributor:

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Studies in Renaissance literature 1465-6310 ; v. 21.

Studies in Renaissance literature, 1465-6310 ; v. 21

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

English drama.

English drama--Islamic influences.

Islam and literature--England--History--17th century.

Islam and literature.

Islam in literature.

History.

Islamic countries--Foreign public opinion, English.

Islamic countries.

England.

Physical Description:

viii, 200 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge ; New York : D.S. Brewer, 2007.

Summary:

This stimulating book will be welcomed by historians, literary scholars, and anyone interested in the history of the English fascination with Islam and the cultural exoticism associated with the East.' PROFESSOR GERALD MACLEAN

Contents:

1 Cultural Encounters between England and Islam in the Seventeenth Century: A Topography 21

2 Framing 'an English Alchoran': The Famous Tragedie of Charles I and the first English translation of the Qur'an 52

3 Orienting the Monarch: Tyranny and Tragedy in Robert Baron's Mirza and John Denham's The Sophy 69

4 Turning to the Turk: Collaboration and Conversion in William Davenant's The Siege of Rhodes 96

5 Toleration, Trade and English Mahometanism in the Aftermath of Restoration 129

6 Plotting the Succession: Exclusion, Oates and the News from Vienna 156

Conclusion: 'If we our selves, would from our selves exam'ne us' 182.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

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

ISBN:

9781843841272

1843841274

OCLC:

141386262