Traffic and Turning: Islam and English Drama, 1579-1624University of Delaware Press, 2005 - 319 páginas Bringing together English, Ottoman, and North African sources to outline the discourse on Muslims, Traffic and Turning offers an extended discussion of the theater and its place in this discourse, while presenting important methodological and theoretical theses with regard to the analysis of cross-cultural encounters in early modern England. |
Contenido
| 53 | |
A Christian Not Turned Turk Conversion and Desire Part 1 | 92 |
A Turk Turned Christian Conversion and Desire Part 2 | 126 |
Traffic in the Streets Turks in the Closet Pageant Muslims and Grevilles Mustapha | 160 |
It dus me good dat me have coosend de Jew Christians Turks and Jews on the Early Modern Stage | 196 |
Bondslaves and Pagans Shall Our Statesemen Be Othello Leo Africanus and Muslim Ambassadors to Europe | 233 |
Appendix | 257 |
Notes | 259 |
Bibliography | 295 |
Index | 313 |
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