Images of the Muslim Woman in Early Modern English Drama - Queens, Eves, and Furies

This is a multidisciplinary study that reads the early modern literary and historical representations of the Muslim woman against both the European politics towards Islam and the domestic constructions of gender and social hierarchies in England.

List of contents

Chapter 1: Introduction: Re-Orienting Gender and Islamic Alterity in Early Modern English Drama
Chapter 2: Erasing the Cultural and Religious Difference: Marlowe's Tamburlaine and Greene's Alphonsus
Chapter 3: The Muslim Woman and A Christian Turned Turk: Islamic Apostasy and the Gender Paradigm on the Jacobean Stage
Chapter 4: Redeeming the Islamic Eve inside the Ottoman Palace: Massinger's The Renegado
Chapter 5: "Hell's Perfect Character:" Dark Female Sexuality and the Fear of Ottoman Colonialism in The Knight of Malta
Chapter 6: The Island Princess: Colonialism, Religion, (Inter)sexuality and Intertextuality

About the author

By Öz Öktem

Product details

• Authors: Oez Oektem, Oz Oktem, Öz Öktem, Öktem Öz
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.01.2021
• EAN: 9781793625229
• ISBN: 978-1-79362-522-9
• No. of pages: 192
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / Drama, LITERARY CRITICISM / Middle Eastern, Middle East, Ireland, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Literature: history & criticism, Literary studies: plays & playwrights