Islamic Conversion and Christian Resistance on the Early Modern Stage - Couverture rigide

Degenhardt, Jane Hwang

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0748640843 ISBN 13 : 9780748640843

Editeur : Edinburgh University Press, 2010

Synopsis

This book explores the spectre 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 - a fate worse than death as well as a sexual seduction. Degenhardt examines the stage's treatment of this intercourse of faiths to reveal connections between sexuality, race, and confessional identity in early modern English drama and culture. In addition, she shows how England's encounter with Islam reanimated post-Reformation debates about the embodiment of Christian faith. As Degenhardt compellingly demonstrates, the erotics of conversion added fuel to the fires of controversies over Pauline universalism, Christian martyrdom, the efficacy of relics and rituals, and the ideals of the Knights of Malta.

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À propos de l'auteur

Jane Hwang Degenhardt is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She is the co-editor (with Elizabeth Williamson) of Religion and Drama in Early Modern England.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Edinburgh University Press
• Date d'édition: 2010
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0748640843
• ISBN 13: 9780748640843
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 272
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• Personne responsable: non disponible