Islamic conversion and Christian resistance on the early modern stage /
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.
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Edinburgh :
Edinburgh University Press,
2010.
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