Turning Turk : English theater and the multicultural Mediterranean, 1570-1630 / by Vitkus, Daniel J.

Table of Contents: “…Before Empire: England, alterity, and the Mediterranean context -- The English and the early modern Mediterranean context -- Marlowe's Mahomet: Islam, Turks, and religious controversy in Tamburlaine, parts I and II -- Othello turns Turk -- Scenes of conversion: piracy, apostasy and the Sultan's Seraglio -- Machiavellian merchants: Italians, Jews, and Turks.…”

Shakespeare and the Mediterranean : the selected proceedings of the International Shakespeare Association World Congress, Valencia, 2001 /

Table of Contents: “…Hildy -- Tempest's masque and opera / David Lindley -- Northern Hamlet and southern Othello? : Irving, Salvini, and the whirlwind of passion / Adrian Poole -- Self-consistency in Montaigne and Shakespeare / Robert Ellrodt -- Translating Arden : Shakespeare's rhetorical place in As you like it / Swapan Chakravorty -- pronouns of propriety and passion : you and thou in Shakespeare's Italian comedies / Penelope Freedman -- "Action and accent did they teach him there" : Shakespeare and the construction of soundscape / Ros King -- disappearing wall : A midsummer night's dream and Timon of Athens / Alexander Leggatt -- Shakespeare's outsiders / Charles Marowitz -- "His master's ass" : slavery, service, and subordination in Othello / Michael Neill -- Shakespeare's Odyssey / Yves Peyre -- Shakespeare's Mediterranean Measure for measure / Gary Taylor -- Playtext reporters and Memoriones : suspect texts in Shakespeare and Spanish golden age drama / Jesus Tronch-Perez -- Shakespeare's islands / Jonathan Bate -- Painted devils and aery nothings : metamorphoses and magic art / Marina Warner -- From Shakespeare's Italy to Italy's Shakespeare : biographical fantasies of love and power / Paul Franssen -- Gender on the periphery / Jean E. …”