Islamic conversion and Christian resistance on the early modern stage / Jane Hwang Degenhardt.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Degenhardt, Jane Hwang.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

English drama.

Islam in literature.

Muslim converts from Christianity.

Islam--Social aspects--England--History--16th century.

Islam.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 264 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, c2010.

Language Note:

English

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.

Contents:

Introduction: seduction, resistance, and redemption : "turning Turk" and the embodiment of Christian faith

Dangerous fellowship : universal faith and its bodily limits in The comedy of errors and Othello

Recycled models : Catholic martyrdom and embodied resistance to conversion in The virgin martyr and other Red Bull plays

Engendering faith : sexual defilement and spiritual redemption in The renegado

"Reforming" the Knights of Malta : male chastity and temperance in five early modern plays

Epilogue : turning miscegenation into tragicomedy (or not) : Robert Greene's Orlando furioso.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-7486-5159-4

1-282-89977-5

9786612899775

0-7486-4320-6

OCLC:

693761391