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Islamic conversion and Christian resistance on the early modern stage / Jane Hwang Degenhardt.

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This book explores the theme of Christian conversion to Islam in 12 early-modern English plays by Shakespeare, Marlowe, Massinger and others. In these works, conversion from Christianity to Islam is represented as both erotic and tragic: as a sexual seduction and a fate worse than death. Degenhardt...

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Main Author: Degenhardt, Jane Hwang
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, ©2010.
Subjects:
English drama > Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600 > History and criticism.
Islam in literature.
Muslim converts from Christianity.
Islam > Social aspects > England > History > 16th century.
English drama > Early modern and Elizabethan.
Islam > Social aspects.
England.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.

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Call Number: PR658.M87 D444 2010eb
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