Islamic Conversion and Christian Resistance on the Early Modern Stage / / Jane Hwang Degenhardt.
This book explores the theme of Christian conversion to Islam in 12 early-modern English plays by Shakespeare, Marlowe, Massinger and others. In these works, conversion from Christianity to Islam is represented as both erotic and tragic: as a sexual seduction and a fate worse than death. Degenhardt...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-2000 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022] ©2010 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (272 p.) :; 20 B/W illustrations |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- List of Figures
- Introduction: Seduction, Resistance, and Redemption: “Turning Turk” and the Embodiment of Christian Faith
- 1 Dangerous Fellowship: Universal Faith and its Bodily Limits in The Comedy of Errors and Othello
- 2 Recycled Models: Catholic Martyrdom and Embodied Resistance to Conversion in The Virgin Martyr and Other Red Bull Plays
- 3 Engendering Faith: Sexual Defilement and Spiritual Redemption in The Renegado
- 4 “Reforming” the Knights of Malta: Male Chastity and Temperance in Five Early Modern Plays
- 5 Epilogue: Turning Miscegenation into Tragicomedy (Or Not): Robert Greene’s Orlando Furioso
- Notes
- Index