Islamic Conversion and Christian Resistance on the Early Modern Stage

Islamic Conversion and Christian Resistance on the Early Modern Stage
ISBN-10
074868655X
ISBN-13
9780748686551
Category
Literary Criticism
Pages
272
Language
English
Published
2010-08-19
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Author
Jane Hwang Degenhardt

Description

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 t

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