Staging Islam in England : drama and culture, 1640-1685
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書誌事項
Staging Islam in England : drama and culture, 1640-1685
（Studies in Renaissance literature / general editor: John T. Shawcross, v. 21）
D.S. Brewer, 2007
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 187-196) and index
内容説明・目次
内容説明
Exploration of the ways in which Islam manifested itself in the writings of the seventeenth century.
`This stimulating book will be welcomed by historians, literary scholars, and anyone interested in the history of the English fascination with Islam and the cultural exoticism associated with the East.' PROFESSOR GERALD MACLEANTransmitted via the mechanisms of trade and diplomacy and reflected through stage and press, England's cultural encounters with Islam - its peoples, its history, its territories - were fundamental to the ways in which the nationconstructed itself through all the tribulations of the seventeenth century; a preoccupation with Islam permeated religious, political, diplomatic and commercial discourses to a degree that has not been recognised by standard accounts of the period.
This book traces engagement with Islam in English political and dramatic life from the inauguration of the Long Parliament until the death of Charles II. It explores the reception and representation ofIslam in a wide range of English writings of the period, employing close textual and historical research to trace the development of the 'Turk' from the archetype of cruelty and treachery to the complex and often contradictory figure of mid-century discourse. Throughout, it argues that Islam provided a repository of meanings ripe for transposition to Revolutionary and Restoration England, a process that transfigured the 'East' through the lens of English politics and vice-versa.
目次
Introduction
Cultural Encounters between England and Islam in the Seventeenth Century: A Topography
Framing `an English Alchoran': The Famous Tragedie of Charles I and the first English translation of the Qur'an
Orienting the Monarch: Tyranny and Tragedy in Robert Baron's Mirza and John Denham's The Sophy
Turning to the Turk: Collaboration and Conversion in William Davenant's The Siege of Rhodes
Toleration, Trade and English Mahometanism in the Aftermath of Restoration
Plotting the Succession: Exclusion, Oates and the News from Vienna
Conclusion: `If we ourselves, would from our selves exam'ne us'
Bibliography
Index
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