Islamic Conversion and Christian Resistance on the Early Modern Stage
Jane Hwang (Associate Professor of English, University of Massachusetts, Amherst) Degenhardt
Edinburgh University Press, 2010
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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 than death and as a sexual seduction.
- ISBN-13
- 9780748640843
- ISBN-10
- 0748640843
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Year
- 2010
- Publication date
- 2010-08-19
- Pages
- 272
- Dimensions
- 241x165x21
- Weight
- 572