Images of the Muslim Woman in Early Modern English Drama
Title | Images of the Muslim Woman in Early Modern English Drama PDF eBook |
Author | Öz Öktem |
Publisher | Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | 193 |
Release | 2021-01-29 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1793625239 |
Early modern scholarship often reads the dramatic representations of the Muslim woman in the light of postcolonial identity politics, which sees an organic relationship between the West’s historical domination of the East and the Western discourse on the East. This book problematizes the above trajectory by arguing that the assumption of a power relation between a dominating West and a subordinate East cannot be sustained within the context of the political and historical realities of early modern Europe. The Ottoman Empire remained as a dominant superpower throughout the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and was perceived by Protestant England both as a military and religious threat and as a possible ally against Catholic Spain. Reading a series of early modern plays from Marlowe to Beaumont and Fletcher alongside a number of historical sources and documents, this book re-interprets the image of Islamic femininity in the period’s drama to reflect this overturn in the world’s power balances, as well as the intricate dynamics of England’s intensified contact with Islam in the Mediterranean.
Materializing the East in Early Modern English Drama
Title | Materializing the East in Early Modern English Drama PDF eBook |
Author | Murat Ögütcü |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | 265 |
Release | 2023-02-09 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1350300470 |
Despite the popularity of plays about the East, the representation of the East in early modern drama has been either overlooked, marginalized as footnotes or generalized into stereotypes. Materializing the East in Early Modern English Drama focuses on the multi-layered, often conflicting and changing perceptions of the East and how dramatic works made use of their respective theatrical space to represent the concept of the East in drama. This volume re-examines the (mis)representation of the East on the early modern English outdoor and indoor stage and broadens our understanding of early modern theatrical productions beyond Shakespeare and the European continent. It traces the origin of conventional depictions of the East to university dramas and explores how they influenced the commercial stage. Chapters uncover how conflicting representations of the East were communicated on stage through the material aspects of stage architecture, costumes and performance effects. The collection emphasizes these material aspects of dramatic performances and showcases neglected plays, including George Salterne's Tomumbeius, Robert Greene's The Historie of Orlando Furioso and Joseph Simons' Leo the Armenian, and puts them in conversation with William Shakespeare's The Tempest and John Fletcher's The Island Princess.
Women and Islam in Early Modern English Literature
Title | Women and Islam in Early Modern English Literature PDF eBook |
Author | Bernadette Andrea |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 196 |
Release | 2008-01-17 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1139468022 |
In this innovative study, Bernadette Andrea focuses on the contributions of women and their writings in the early modern cultural encounters between England and the Islamic world. She examines previously neglected material, such as the diplomatic correspondence between Queen Elizabeth I and the Ottoman Queen Mother Safiye at the end of the sixteenth century, and resituates canonical accounts, including Lady Mary Wortley Montagu's travelogue of the Ottoman empire at the beginning of the eighteenth century. Her study advances our understanding of how women negotiated conflicting discourses of gender, orientalism, and imperialism at a time when the Ottoman empire was hugely powerful and England was still a marginal nation with limited global influence. This book is a significant contribution to critical and theoretical debates in literary and cultural, postcolonial, women's, and Middle Eastern studies.
Persia in Early Modern English Drama, 1530–1699
Title | Persia in Early Modern English Drama, 1530–1699 PDF eBook |
Author | Chloë Houston |
Publisher | Springer Nature |
Total Pages | 300 |
Release | 2023-05-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 3031226186 |
This book is a study of the representation of the Persian empire in English drama across the early modern period, from the 1530s to the 1690s. The wide focus of this book, encompassing thirteen dramatic entertainments, both canonical and little-known, allow it to trace the changes and developments in the dramatic use of Persia and its people across one and a half centuries. It explores what Persia signified to English playwrights and audiences in this period; the ideas and associations conjured up by mention of ‘Persia’; and where information about Persia came from. It also considers how ideas about Persia changed with the development of global travel and trade, as English people came into people with Persians for the first time. In addressing these issues, this book provides an examination not only of the representation of Persia in dramatic material, but of the broader relationship between travel, politics and the theatre in early modern England.
Women and Islam in Early Modern English Literature
Title | Women and Islam in Early Modern English Literature PDF eBook |
Author | Bernadette Diane Andrea |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 185 |
Release | 2007 |
Genre | English literature |
ISBN | 9780511393884 |
In this innovative study, Bernadette Andrea focuses on the contributions of women and their writings in the early modern cultural encounters between England and the Islamic world. She examines previously neglected material, such as the diplomatic correspondence between Queen Elizabeth I and the Ottoman Queen Mother Safiye at the end of the sixteenth century, and resituates canonical accounts, including Lady Mary Wortley Montagu's travelogue of the Ottoman empire at the beginning of the eighteenth century. Her study advances our understanding of how women negotiated conflicting discourses of gender, orientalism, and imperialism at a time when the Ottoman empire was hugely powerful and England was still a marginal nation with limited global influence. This book is a significant contribution to critical and theoretical debates in literary and cultural, postcolonial, women's, and Middle Eastern studies.
The Lives of Girls and Women from the Islamic World in Early Modern British Literature and Culture, 1500-1630
Title | The Lives of Girls and Women from the Islamic World in Early Modern British Literature and Culture, 1500-1630 PDF eBook |
Author | Bernadette Andrea |
Publisher | University of Toronto Press |
Total Pages | 263 |
Release | 2017-01-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1487501250 |
Cover -- Copyright page -- Contents -- Note on Sources -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Can the Subaltern Signify? Tracing the Lives of Girls and Women from the Islamic World in British Literature and Culture, c. 1500-1630 -- Chapter One: The "Presences of Women" from the Islamic World in Late Medieval Scotland and Early Modern England -- Chapter Two: The Islamic World and the Construction of Early Modern Englishwomen's Authorship: Queen Elizabeth I, the Tartar Girl, and the Tartar-Indian Woman -- Chapter Three: The Islamic World and the Construction of Early Modern Englishwomen's Authorship: Lady Mary Wroth, the Tartar-Persian Princess, and the Tartar King -- Chapter Four: Signifying Gender and Islam in Early Shakespeare: The Comedy of Errors (1594) and the Gray's Inn Revels -- Chapter Five: Signifying Gender and Islam in Late Shakespeare: Henry VIII or All is True (1613) and British "Masques of Blackness" -- Chapter Six: The Intersecting Paths of Two Women from the Islamic World: Teresa Sampsonia, Mariam Khanim, and the East India Company -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Religious Conversion in Early Modern English Drama
Title | Religious Conversion in Early Modern English Drama PDF eBook |
Author | Lieke Stelling |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 231 |
Release | 2019-01-03 |
Genre | Drama |
ISBN | 1108477038 |
A cross-religious exploration of conversion on the early modern English stage offering fresh readings of canonical and lesser-known plays.