The Edge of Christendom on the Early Modern Stage / / Lisa Hopkins.
Throughout the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the edges of Europe were under pressure from the Ottoman Turks. This book explores how Shakespeare and his contemporaries represented places where Christians came up against Turks, including Malta, Tunis, Hungary, and Armenia. Some forms of Christi...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Kalamazoo, MI : : Medieval Institute Publications, , [2022] ©2022 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Late Tudor and Stuart Drama : Gender, Performance, and Material Culture
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (VIII, 250 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Part One: The Edge and the Centre
- Chapter 1 “All places shall be hell that are not heaven”: The Edge of Rome
- 2 Beautiful Polecats: The Living and the Dead in Julius Caesar
- 3 Danger and Demarcation in Massinger
- Part Two: Edges Abroad
- Chapter 4 “Having passed Armenian deserts now”: Marlowe’s Tamburlaine the Great
- 5 Bears and Fairies: A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Twelfth Night
- 6 The Last Plays and the Edges of Christendom
- 7 The Politics of the Rose: English Histories and Foreign Flowers
- Part Three: Edges at Home
- Chapter 8 North by North-West: The Danelaw and the Edge of Christendom
- 9 Let the Right One In: Edges of Christendom in Cavendish-Talbot Houses
- Conclusion
- Works Cited
- Index of Place Names, Authors, and Works