William Percy's Mahomet and His Heaven - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0754654060 ISBN 13 : 9780754654063

Editeur : Routledge, 2006

Synopsis

William Percy's Mahomet and His Heaven (1601) - roughly contemporary to Shakespeare's Othello - is the only known play of the early modern period to place the Prophet Mohammad on the stage. The play takes place in around the mosques of 'Mecha' and the action mirrors parts of the Qur'an, the Islamic holy text that was rarely available in England at the time. Matthew Dimmock presents here the play in its entirety, with a critical introduction which introduces some of the key themes of the play, and its textual and social context. A section of detailed explanatory scholarly notes follow the play, with a full translation of the short Latin sections and a reference to any political or literary parallels. This book should be required reading for historians and literary scholars dealing with notions of 'race' and 'religion' in early modern England.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Dr Matthew Dimmock is Lecturer in English at the University of Sussex. His previous publications include New Turkes: Dramatizing Islam and the Ottomans in Early Modern England (Ashgate, 2005) and Cultural Encounters Between East and West, 1453-1699 (Cambridge Scholars Press, 2005), co-edited with Matthew Birchwood. He is currently working on a book-length study of the Prophet Muhammad in Christian thought and iconography.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Routledge
• Date d'édition: 2006
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0754654060
• ISBN 13: 9780754654063
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 266
• Éditeur: Dimmock Matthew
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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