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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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Edinburgh :
Edinburgh University Press,
2010.
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| Online Access: | CONNECT |
| Summary: | 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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| Item Description: | Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015). |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (viii, 264 pages) : digital, PDF file(s). |
| ISBN: | 9780748643202 (ebook) |
