Persian Paradigms in Early Modern English Drama - Hospitable Globalities

This book examines Persian characters in English drama (1561-1696) to animate a new narrative of transnational relationships and structures of power in the Early Modern period. Several plays, from Godly Queene Hester to Cyrus the Great, are read alongside early modern English prose and poetry, toleration discourse, and European peace proposals.

About the author

Sheiba Kian Kaufman is an Assistant Professor of English at Saddleback College and Lecturer at the University of California, Irvine. She is the author of articles on Shakespeare, Persia, and early modern English drama. She has received fellowships from the UCLA Center for 17th-and 18th Century Studies, Clark Library, the UCI Samuel Jordan Center for Persian Studies and Culture, the UCI Center in Law, Society, and Culture, Somerville College, Oxford, and the American Association of University Women.

Product details

• Authors: Sheiba Kian Kaufman, Sheiba (Assistant Professor of Engli Kian Kaufman
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 25.12.2025
• EAN: 9780198966722
• ISBN: 978-0-19-896672-2
• No. of pages: 240
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies; English, LITERARY CRITICISM / Drama, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / General, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800, Shakespeare Studies & Criticism, Literary studies: plays and playwrights, Relating to Shakespeare / Shakespearean